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This is a study that comprehensively covers issues in medical law. Volume I contains terminological considerations and collectively presents the characteristics of individual medical professions as professions of public trust, the principles of obtaining the right ...

In the book, the author searches for fixed and unambiguous normative signposts to help resolve the dilemma of the patient's right to the truth and his or her well-being: Where is the boundary between the truth and the well-being of the patient? This question needs to be translated generally ...

In June 2009, the Act on Patients' Rights and Patients' Ombudsman passed on 6 November 2008 came into force. The Act was part of the so-called package of health laws reforming the health care system. The Act aims to comprehensively systematise and ...

Legal status as of 1 January 2013. The publication discusses the legal and professional status of practitioners of the nursing profession, including, inter alia, issues of: the legal prerequisites for practising as a nurse and the consequences of failing to meet them, training of nurses,...

Everyone has been or will be a patient, which means that he or she will become an element of the increasingly competitive and commercial market of medical services. The presented study is the first publication in the Polish legal literature that refers to the problematic...

Legal status as of 1.08.2008. The book discusses the issues of the criminal law protection of the patient's right to consent to medical interventions undertaken in relation to him/her and his/her right to oppose them. It places emphasis on the differentiation of consequences depending on...

The study presented here discusses key issues concerning the legal nature and meaning of a patient's consent to a medical procedure. The considerations of consent are embedded in two complementary levels of research, the first of which...

The publication explains how the medical profession should be exercised so that this conduct complies with patients' rights, including, among other things: an introduction to the basic issues related to the protection of patients' rights and the sources of their validity, an extensive discussion of the catalogue of obligations...

The book provides managers of medical registries with essential knowledge regarding medical records, patients' rights, data protection and the provision of medical services. It provides practical advice on managing registration staff and...

The publication falls within the field of social sciences and addresses important issues from the perspective of the recipient of health services. The area of analysis combines "atypical" theoretical approaches for this issue and, in addition to the essential social context, it has been...

The book contains an analysis of selected questions on patient rights issues asked by users of the 'Law and Health' website, medical students, postgraduate students of health care, practitioners and representatives of...

The publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the issue of patient consent to a medical procedure and criminal liability for its violation. It presents numerous issues that surface in the area of patient consent along with contentious issues, including...

The commentary is a comprehensive study containing an analysis of the provisions of the Act on Patients' Rights and Patients' Rights Ombudsman, as well as other legal acts in the field of medical law, thanks to which the complexity and dynamics of the discussed issues are shown. In the latest...

The book discusses issues relating to:- the medical and legal definition of biological medicines,- biosimilar medicines in clinical practice,- substitution of medicines in the context of patient rights,- biological medicines in EU legislation and in selected regulations and...

In Poland, the long-standing crisis of the health care system, disputes over its shape, financing and the conditions of employment of medical personnel have pushed the patient and his or her rights into the background. The changes to the health care system undertaken in recent years focus...