The rights of patients : the basic ACLU guide to patient rights
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The rights of patients : the basic ACLU guide to patient rights
(An American Civil Liberties Union handbook)
Southern Illinois University Press, c1989
2nd ed., completely rev. and up-to-date
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
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  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Rev. ed. of: The rights of hospital patients, c1975
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
If you expect to be a patient--or even if you don't but become one anyway--what are your rights? Will your requests be honored? Will they even be heard? Do you have to blindly follow orders? Does "patient" status preempt "person" status? Just what can you reasonably expect from your physicians, your hospital, and all the other healthcare workers involved in your treatment? America's leading proponent of patient rights spells it all out for you in this revised, up-to-date edition of his groundbreaking classic The Rights of Patients. Thorough, comprehensive, and easy to follow, using a question-and-answer format in much of the text, The Rights of Patients explores all aspects of becoming an informed patient: hospital organization, hospital rules, emergency treatment, admission and discharge, the patient rights movement, informed consent, surgery, obstetrical care, human experimentation and research, privacy and confidentiality, care of the dying, death, autopsy, and organ donation, medical malpractice and the patient rights advocate. Developed under the auspices of the American Civil Liberties Union, this indispensable guide also contains helpful appendices covering the Patient Bill of Rights Act, the Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney, the right to refuse treatment, how to use medical and law libraries, and similar valuable resources. Everyone is a potential candidate for patienthood. Therefore everyone should be fully informed and aware of his or her rights when facing health crises. The Rights of Patients will give you the knowledge--and the power--to ensure optimum treatment and respect in these harrowing moments.
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