BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie

accurate and as unbiased a manner as possible. The patient chooses from
the available options.
Interpretive - In this model, the patient is not expected to
simply choose among available options because he/she lacks medical
training. Instead, the physician tries to understand or interpret the patient’s
general values and preferences. The physician then recommends the
treatment option which is most consistent with the patient’s values.
Deliberative - In this model, part of the physician’s role is to
promote health by influencing the patient’s health-related choices, using
non-coercive approaches to motivate the patient.
All these model of doctor- patient interaction occur within the
limits of professional sets of norms designed to guide the behavior in
medical context. One of such a set of norm is A U.S. Patient's Bill of
Rights is a statement of the rights to which patients are entitled as
recipients of medical care. Typically, a statement articulates the positive
rights which doctors and hospitals ought to provide patients, thereby
providing information, offering fair treatment, and granting them
autonomy over medical decisions.
Shrewsbury Surgery Center PATIENT BILL OF RIGHTS
1.Information Disclosure. Consumers have the right to receive
accurate, easily understood information and some require assistance in
making informed health care decisions about their health plans,
professionals, and facilities.
2.Choice of Providers and Plans. Consumers have the right to a
choice of health care providers that is sufficient to ensure access to
appropriate high-quality health care.
3.Access to Emergency Services. Consumers have the right to
access emergency health care services when and where the need arises.
Health plans should provide payment when a consumer presents to an
emergency department with acute symptoms of sufficient severity -including
severe pain -- such that a "prudent layperson" could reasonably
expect the absence of medical attention to result in placing that
consumer's health in serious jeopardy, serious impairment to bodily
functions, or serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part.
4.Participation in Treatment Decisions. Consumers have the right
and responsibility to fully participate in all decisions related to their
health care. Consumers who are unable to fully participate in treatment
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