Patient rights
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"Free physician, who usually cares for free men, treats their disease first by thoroughly discussing with the patient and his friends his ailment."
Plato
In our modern society it is very controversial today to say what is right for patient and what is not. A lot of questions are rising among medical society of whether to tell a terminally ill patient of his or her condition or withhold that information from a patient. Therefore, it follows that if a doctor withholds information from a patient then there are no other options available for that patient but to await the end of his or her life. And I think that this is not a good approach to solve a problem. I think that every patient has a right to know about his or her condition no matter how terminally ill they are. Every patient should have a right to know their options for treatment and their chances of conquering the disease.
Consequently, it is a physician duty to discuss the condition that his or her patient is in, and give a patient at least a slight hope that their disease can be cured if a patient would decide to try to engage in some sort of treatment or therapy. If a patient decides to go on and try some procedures, it is a physician's responsibility to inform a patient about the risk factors of a certain procedures, give patient prognosis information in the form of statistical odds of survival so a patient then can decide for him/herself and not follow wrong hopes.
The other important aspect of informing terminally ill patient about his or her condition is that patient will have an opportunity to decide how to spend the rest of his life...