Question 65 · LDEK · Patient rights
Do patients have the right to have their pain treated?
- A. only indirectly - they have the right to health services that include also the treatment of pain.
- B. only indirectly - they have the right to respect of dignity and intimacy which includes indispensable right to treat pain, but the right applies only to terminal conditions.
- C. Polish legislator does not comment on this issue.
- D. yes, the Act on the Patients’ Rights and the Ombudsman for Patients’ Rights refers to it.
- E. yes, the right is defined in the Act on the Profession of Doctor and Dentist.
Hint
Check whether Polish patient-rights legislation contains an explicit, separate right concerning pain management.
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