Patient Rights
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RIGHTS OF THE PATIENTS
- Right to considerate and respectful care.
- Right to information on diagnosis, treatment and medicines.
- Right to obtain all the relevant information about the professionals involved in the patient care.
- Right to expect that all the communications and records pertaining to his/her case be treated as confidential.
- Right to every consideration of his/her privacy concerning his/her medical care programme.
- Right to expect prompt treatment in an emergency.
- Right to refuse to participate in human experimentation, research, project affecting his/her care or treatment.
- Right to get copies of medical records.
- Right to know what hospital rules and regulations apply to him/her as a patient and the facilities obtainable to the patient.
- Right to get details of the bill.
- Right to seek second opinion about his/her disease, treatment etc.