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In health law: Patients’ rights
In addition to granting patients the means for the effective redress for negligent injury (which increases the cost of malpractice insurance for physicians—and thus the cost of medical care), malpractice litigation has also promoted what have come to be called patients’ rights.
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In bioethics: The health care context
…of his patient and the patient’s right to self-determination or autonomy, a right that in the medical context is usually taken to encompass a right to be fully informed about one’s condition and a right to be consulted about the course of one’s treatment. Is a doctor obliged to tell…
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