by Pronet Studio | Dec 14, 2022 | Polish publications
The right to consent to healthcare is one of the most important patient rights, but it is limited in relation to children. The principle is that a minor patient who is 16 years of age or older consents to medical acts together with the designated...
by Pronet Studio | Dec 14, 2022 | Polish publications
The article addresses the issue of the patient's consent as a civil law event, the form of consent, types of consent, i.e. proper, substitutive, cumulative and defective consent. The author explains the issue of the patient's consent to a medical procedure. She addresses the issue of ...
by Pronet Studio | Dec 14, 2022 | Polish publications
Respect for patients' rights by medical staff is the basis of a properly functioning health service. The aim of this study was to analyse the knowledge and attitudes of medical staff towards patients' rights. The study involved 100 doctors (40% specialists) and 100...
by Pronet Studio | Dec 14, 2022 | Polish publications
Issues related to death and dying have aroused serious controversy in legal and medical circles for several years. For political and ideological reasons, the Polish legislator has not yet comprehensively regulated...
by Pronet Studio | Dec 14, 2022 | Polish publications
Paternalism is a part of traditional medicine in which the doctor's authoritarian approach to the patient prevails. The patient's autonomy in the paternalistic model is either very limited or non-existent. Since the late 1980s, there has been an ongoing critique of the paternalistic ...
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