Publications abroad

This article addresses the protection of the personal good of privacy in the context of hospitalised patients. The issues addressed are the patient's right to respect for their private and family life and the lack of respect for this right as a result of the restrictions...

Human dignity is the highest humanistic value, which is given fundamental importance in Polish law. It has been elevated to constitutional status and is protected by numerous provisions, both civil and criminal. Respect for dignity has...

Respecting the rights of the patient, regardless of medical speciality, is the responsibility of every state. Patients' rights are a specific category of human rights and find their origin in their dignity. The aim of this study is to present the legal provisions on the rights of persons...

The subject of this article is a discussion of the issues related to the limitations on patient rights provided for in the legislation for the prevention and control of infectious diseases - in this case, tuberculosis. These limitations arise from the treatment of public health as...

Polish medical law has adopted the principle of equivalence in the doctor-patient relationship. In this way, medical paternalism was abandoned. The newly enacted or renewed Regulations were largely responsible for this. All Polish hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, must ...

Patients' rights are specific in nature. They relate to an exceptional situation. The patient comes to the doctor at a time of suffering, pain, difficulty. The doctor has the knowledge and skills to treat. He has the ability to help the patient. However, treatment involves...

Pharmacists belong to a group of professions of public trust, with which the obligation of professional secrecy is closely associated. This obligation does not exist in Polish regulations for technicians. In the meantime, the patient in the pharmacy discovers secrets of intimacy. The issue...

Freedom of conscience and religion is an important value, protected in Poland both by constitutional regulation and by many acts of a lower rank. It derives from it the possibility of freely adopting worldviews, including religious views, and then their...

When reading Blazej Kmieciak's book, the question arises: what are children's rights for? The answer to this question can be twofold. To protect them as a being as unique as any human being, or to protect other values like the well-being of the family or...

On 15-16 April 2016, the Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok hosted the National Scientific Conference "Patients' rights. The limits of patient autonomy'. The event was organised by the Scientific Circle of Medical and Pharma-ceutical Law "Pro...

This article is devoted to an analysis of the relationship between the institution of capacity established by the Civil Code and the capacity of the patient to give consent, the construction of which is provided for in the Act on Patients' Rights and Ombudsman...

What do we associate the law with? Most people probably associate the law with the courtroom, the profession of lawyer or judge. Rarely, however, do scholars' discussions draw attention to the fact that law can also be an extremely important aspect of the inner experience. Sociology ...

The rules of common law recognise the right of a minor patient over the age of 16 to make decisions regarding the treatment process. The current legal solutions concerning the rights of the minor patient are characterised by a lack of consistency primarily in...

At the beginning of December, the national media notified the public of the dismissal of the Patient Ombudsman by the Prime Minister. The news came as no surprise to some experts in the field of patient rights. After all, the Ombudsman had been in office for more than ...

Legislation is present today in virtually every area of life, including medicine. Legislation concerning the care of patients with mental disorders who, because of a medical condition or...