Do patients have health care rights that are not legal or st

Do patients have health care rights that are not legal or statuatory rights? Explain your answer.

Solution

Legal Conceptualization: it supplies that a patient has a right to realize potential benefits, risks, and option a of proposed therapy; duty of physician to reveal to the patient a full apprehension of the suggested care before patient assent to it.

Statuatory Rights: when a patient is clinically unfit to give assent to a lifesaving emergency therapy. The law implicit assent (exigency in most states abolish need for assent)