George Annas, America's leading proponent of patient rights, spells them out for you in this revised, up-to-date edition of his groundbreaking classic. 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.

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Written for patients, their families, and care-givers to enable them to understand and exercise their legal rights, The Rights of Patients, by George J. Annas, covers such subjects as informed consent, emergency treatment, admission and discharge, human experimentation, privacy and confidentiality, medical records, and surgery.

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