Rights of Patients The Basic Aclu Guide to Patient Rights

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.Annas, George J. is the author of 'Rights of Patients The Basic Aclu Guide to Patient Rights' with ISBN 9780896031821 and ISBN 0896031829.