Question

Patients have rights and responsibilities in health care. Select a right or responsibility. Explain your chosen right or responsibility. Develop a scenario using either the right or responsibility you have selected and provide an outcome (pro and con).

Answer 1

The selected right and responsibility of patient is Access to care.

Explaination :- Patient should be always access to care irrespective of race,caste creed,religion,sex,origin or disability.

pro:

A 65-year-old white male, came in emergency department (ED),with severe hip pain after a fall in a shopping mall. she was alert and oriented, & co-operated fully in all diagnostic tests and care while in the emergency department (ED). However, when the doctor told her the diagnosis—fractured hip—she doesnot to allow to do the further treatment and demanded she be allowed to die with dignity. After attempting to persuade for the better part of an hour, the ED physician called her eldest daughter for permission to treat her as The daughter was out of the country, but after a discussion with the doctor, she gave permission for treatment.

This exemplify that its patient right to get the accessibility of care.

con:

Mr. Flora ,69 yrs old was diagnosed with prostate cancer eight years ago but he refused to get medical and surgical treatment in the past years. He has chosen to seek other treatment & didnot went to urologist over the years. He has now come with the complaints with anemia and hypoproteinemia. After several diagnostic tests, it was identified that the cancer had metastasized to his bones, lymph nodes and the primary tumor was invading the bladder and partially obstructing the left kidney. He had several admissions over a two month period for various reasons. On the last admission, he was told that he may only have 4–5 weeks (previously it was 6–12 months) to live after a cystoscopy which shows an extensive growth of the tumor, no surgical/medical intervention would not be appropriate in this case and that a palliative care regimen was the next step. At this point the patient reported to the health care team that he had resigned himself to the fact that he was going to die. He pulled one of the author's colleagues aside and confided to the nurse that he planned to kill himself and that is was a secret that the nurse was not to tell anyone.

This is cons of right to access to care.