Prawa pacjenta z perspektywy funkcjonalnej refleksji
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Date
2014
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Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Instytut Filozofii UAM
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Patient’s rights viewed from the functional reflection
Abstract
In 1991 was passed in Poland the Healthcare Institutions Act.
In the cited act was for the first time used the phrase of „patient’s
rights”. Currently in our country there are several other laws
that directly relate to that issue. In recent years, there has also
been set up new offices in the field of patients’ rights (Patient
Ombudsman, Ombudsman for Psychiatric Patients and specialist
for patient’s rights working in hospitals).
Discussions concerning rights of the patient most often relate
to matters of a formal nature. Specialist literature refers basically
to: the issue of consent to treatment, the issue of medical confidentiality,
the aspect of the dignity of the patient and the system
of protection of patient rights using the services of the health care
system. Rarely however – in this context – debates undertake
a problem of the importance of interaction between a patient and
a doctor. There is also no reflection on the position that physicians
and patients occupy in the course of treating.
The present text aims to depict the patient’s rights from the perspective
of functional reflection. In the first place, it will be presented the
context of treatment within which the sick and the doctors as well
as nurses play their roles. In particular, it will be shown the commercial
face of medical services. Based on the concept of ombudsman
will be taken also an attempt to present medical staff as „the
first ombudsmen of the rights and interests of the patient.”
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patient’s rights, functionalism, human rights ombudsman, direct coercion, commercialization of medical services
Citation
Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2014 Tom 3, Nr 1, s. 169-191.
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978-83-7092-159-0