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What's Right with Patients' Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Patrick R. Carroll
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After eight years of review, analysis, several rejections, at least one near passage, and little or no floor debate in 1979, the Massachusetts Legislature enacted a patients' rights statute. Its passage was generally greeted with rising apathy except for one section which requires physicians treating female patients to make available “in the case of a patient suffering from any form of breast cancer, complete information on all alternative treatments which are medically viable.” The enactment of the patients' rights statute has imposed no major burdens on hospitals since the majority of the provisions of the act were already general practice among most institutions.

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Medicolegal News , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 1980 , pp. 9 - 11
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1980

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