This study attempts to analyse the degree of autonomy available to the patient in the exercise of his or her right to consent to a medical procedure. The considerations revolve around the question of whether Polish law ensures due respect...
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Patients' rights and their implementation under Polish law, with particular emphasis on the patient's right to information and the patient's right to consent to health services
The present work is a discussion and analysis of the rights belonging to the patient under Polish law. Particular attention has been paid to two of them, which, according to the author, constitute the basis of these rights and at the same time are violated in many cases. The rights in question are: the right to...
Determinants of ethical conduct of the nurse in oncology care
The priority of contemporary oncological care is to treat the person affected by cancer holistically, and therefore as a biological, psychological, social and spiritual unit. The interpersonal relationships that occur during the process of ...
Medical confidentiality and the right of a close relative of a patient to medical information - a contribution to the discussion
The purpose of this article is to attempt to present the medical law institution of medical confidentiality, defining it, highlighting its most important features and then contrasting it with the right to medical information of a patient's relative. As a competing right with...
Patient's right to intimacy during the provision of health services
Medical staff should treat the patient as an equal participant in the therapeutic procedure and not as someone of lesser importance who is expected to submit to the rules they impose, which is not so obvious today. These individuals should relate ...
Respect for the privacy of the patient in a psychiatric hospital - legal, ethical and social context
The Mental Health Protection Act, which has been in force in Poland for 15 years, is described by experts on the subject as a legal act that clearly guarantees respect for the rights and freedoms of a mentally ill person. The aforementioned Act does not exhaust the issue of protection ...
MEDICAL DUTY AND PATIENT SELF-DETERMINATION
In Polish legislation and deontology at the beginning of the 20th century, there was no mention of patient autonomy in the course of treatment. However, over the years, and above all the significant increase in patient awareness, the nature of healthcare changed. The patient could increasingly...
ASSESSMENT OF DENTAL CLINIC PATIENTS' SATISFACTION WITH THE MEDICAL STAFF'S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PATIENT'S RIGHT TO INFORMATION
One of the basic rights of the patient is the right to information about his/her condition, treatment and possible complications. In order for the patient to be able to make the best decision for him/herself about further treatment, he/she must be given full and understandable information about...
Mental illness - the suffering that changed the law
Throughout history, patients in psychiatric institutions have often been inadequately treated. These individuals have been isolated, humiliated and excluded. On the other hand, treatment often goes against subjective/agent positions and the rights of people with mental disorders to...
Patients' rights - the postulated standard and its implementation in Wielkopolska on the basis of patients' complaints and requests
Patients' rights, being an integral part of human rights in a broad sense, define the relationship between a patient and an institution or a person providing medical services. The aim of this work is to present a catalogue of patient rights guaranteed in acts of statutory rank and...
Autonomy and rights of the minor patient vis-à-vis parental authority
The fact that the possibility of performing a medical procedure depends on the patient's consent demonstrates the importance of this institution. The requirement to obtain consent for the provision of a medical service is regulated by the provisions of the Constitution and the laws on medical professions and rights ...
Patients' rights - an important social and legal issue
For several years now, patient rights have been the subject of increasing social policy interest in the world, and increasingly in our country. The aim of this article is to identify the various sources of threats to the human patient, which are at the same time the cause of the increasing...
Rights of a dying person
The rights of the dying person should be an integral part of the overall rights of the patient. It is important to recognise that these are norms linked to the end of a person's existence, and as such should receive special attention from those providing medical or nursing care....
A close relative in terms of communicating information about a patient's condition (Part 2)
A patient's right to be informed about his or her health is one of the patient's rights regulated by the provisions of the Act of 6 November 2008 on Patients' Rights and Patients' Ombudsman. In certain circumstances (when the patient is under 16 years of age, unconscious or...
Report from the conference "The Patient and his Rights in Poland and in the EU" held in Warsaw on the occasion of the 5th European Patients' Rights Day
On April 16, 2011, an international scientific symposium was held on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the School and Institute of Public Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Jagiellonian University Medical College entitled "Public Health in Europe".....