Rights
- You have the right to safe, effective, ethical, and cost effective medical care.
- You have the right to understand tests, medications, procedures and treatments, their risks, their costs and their alternatives.
- You have the right to complete and timely information regarding your illness.
- You have the right to know the name of your health care providers, their roles and responsibilities.
- You have the right to have your privacy and personal dignity maintained.
- You have the right to be treated with respect and courtesy, to be addressed by your proper name. To be listened to when you have a problem or a question, and to receive an appropriate response.
- You have the right to see and obtain a copy of your medical record.
- You have the right to a detailed, itemized copy of your bill.
- You have the right to refuse treatment and should be informed of the clinical consequences of that decision.
- You have the right to have your family, religious or cultural preferences acknowledged and adhered to within the bounds of safe medical practice.
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Responsibilities
- You have the responsibility to develop and maintain positive health practices:good nutrition, sleep and rest, exercise, positive relationships and stress management.
- You have the responsibility to make choices in your own best interest based on a clear understanding of your medical care, its costs, risks and alternatives.
- You have the responsibility to ask for information on your illness, to learn what you can and to do what you can to help maintain the best health possible.
- You have the responsibility to give your physicians and health care providers accurate and complete information about your illness, medical history and medications.
- You are responsible for following your physicians and health care providers orders to the best of your ability, to ask questions if you have problems and concerns and work out alternative plans.
- You have the responsibility for keeping appointments, filling prescriptions and following through on health care instructions, to adhere to the guidelines of hospitals and clinics.
- You have the responsibility to keep a written record of your personal health history, signs and symptoms, medications, treatments, outcomes and concerns.
- You are responsible for covering the costs of your health care.
- You have the responsibility to accept or decline to participate in research activities.
- You are responsible for treating physicians and health care providers with respect, to call with questions during reasonable hours (unless it’s an emergency), to address them by their preferred name, to listen to and respond appropriately to their questions, concerns and professional guidance.
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