rights as a patient.--Allyson
My Rights As A Patient
My right to knowledge
inclusive of the big words, the ups and downs and the real facts good and bad.
My right to have you care
for how I feel just as much as give me a diagnosis or a treatment plan.
My right to hear to say
you have listened to my reality and value this as true knowledge.
My right to a treatment
plan that places me in the drivers seat.
My right to say I am
scared, anxious, frightened and that I don’t know what to do.
My right for you to know I
am here in need of your help to find me some answers.
My right to details,
results and explanations as they are discovered.
My right to ask questions,
lots of them and for you to do your best at answering them.
My right to know and fully
understand my problem is in my body not “all in my head.”
My right to be heard by an
attentive and understanding professional who chooses to seek
understanding by looking behind my silence, fear, tears, pain, anxiety, behaviour
or frustrations to really hear what I am saying.
My right to disagree with
how you have treated me.
My right to walk away and
seek further advice.
My right to be treated
with respect in treatments despite me asking you the same questions, results
that keep coming back normal, presenting to you with the same symptoms or
having no reaction to medications given.
My right to have you treat
me as a person and not just a patient.
My right for you to
understand that you can make mistakes and that it is my responsibility as the
person seeking treatment to call you on these.
My right to hear that you
don’t know what is going on either.
My right for you and I to
work as a team.
My right for you to tell
me that you see that I am frustrated, anxious and in pain and that you will
help me by taking me seriously.
My right for you to know
the minute I leave this space my experience continues.
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