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Patient-health Worker Relations And Patient Rights In Our Age
Recep AKDUR*
* Prof.Dr.Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Halk Sağlığı AD, ANKARA
According to the general law theory “patient rights” means the duties of community and the health workers at the same time. From the conventional point of view patient rights are limited in only curative services and patient rights are isolated from health right in privacy and human rights in general. As a result of this, the duty of the health worker is limited in clinics or it is thought to be so. In contrast, patient rights with health right and human rights are a part of the whole and can not be isolated from the other: In an other way patient rights can not be limited in curative services.
From the statements above, health workers’ responsibility is not only limited in curative services. To establish and bring in to the community the health and human right is the duty and responsibility of all health workers, majorly the doctors’. A health worker who doesn’t carry out these responsibilities cannot carry out his responsibilities in the curative services.
Keywords: Patient rights, Human rights, Health right, Health workers
Turkiye Klinikleri Tıbbi Etik 1997, 5:43-49
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