The Canadian patient's book of rights: a consumer's guide to Canadian health law. /
Lorne E. Rozovsky
- Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1994.
- xi,242p.: 22cm.
Include index and appendix.
Contents: Part 1: The Right to health care -- The Right to a doctor of one's choice -- Alternative health care -- Consent to treatment -- Negligence and standards of care -- Who is responsible for whom? -- Treatment of children -- The Patient's property -- Patient records, access and confidentiality -- Can a doctor have sex with a patient? -- Hospital insurance and medicare -- Drug stores -- Part 2: Abortion -- Sterilization -- Having a baby by technology -- Circumcision -- AIDS as a communicable disease -- Mental illness -- Research on patients -- Part 3: What is the law? -- To Whom do you complain and how? -- Why don't patients sue? -- Dying and death -- After you've gone -- Additional Reading -- Appendices