Hi Sybille, Thank you for reviewing and commenting on the various threads on this forum. Thank you for being a moderater. I appreciate the way you professionally and tactfully have responded to various situations on this site. I only wish i could be as good with words as yourself.

My comments were directed at 21st Century Delores Doyle. She certainly had a negative experience getting the care she so desired.

I always encourage patients to excercise their patient rights but to be careful on how they communicate with the professionals who are caring for them. The last thing someone wants is to have MD's and staff hardlined against them because of communication issues.

In part here are some patient rights here at my hospital and no doubt federal rights.

1) Patients have the right to have considerate and respectful care and to be made comfortable. You have the right to respect for your cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, and personal balues, beliefs and preferences.

2) You have the right to effective communication and to participate in the develeopment and implementation of your plan of care. You have the right to participate in ethical questions that arise in the course of your care, including issues of conflict resolution, withholding resuscitave services, and forgoing or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

3) consent or to resfuse to a course of treatment.

4) request or refuse treatment, to the extent permitted by law. However, you do not have the right to demant inappropriate or medically unnecessary treatment or services.

5) reasonalbe responses to any reasonable reuqests made for service.

6) appropriate assessment and management of your , pain information about pain, pain relief measures and to participate in pain management decisions. you may request or reject the use of any or all modalities to relieve pain, including opiate medicaiton, if you suffer from severe chronic intractable pain. The doctor may refuse to prescribe the opiate medicaiton, but if so, must inform you that there are physicians who specialize in the treatment of severe chronic intractable pain with methods that include the use of opiates.

The bottom line is that patients and doctors need to work closely together to determine the best course of treatment for each patient and their particular circumstances.

Thanks
RC