Patients’ Rights

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Professional practitioners need to be competent, their doctoring skills and knowledge must be up to date and maintain a good relationship with their patients and their colleagues. The patients’ rights and declaration civil rights enlists expectations of a professional medical practitioner in the field. To practice professionalism, the medical practitioners have to come to terms with the fact that every individual; race, color, creed, national origin, sex, an honorably discharged veteran, sexual orientation or any physical disability has a right to any medical attention available and should not be discriminated in any way. Matters of concern arise whether we as the professionals really adhere to the set laws protecting rights of patients and their civil rights (Washington State Legislature, 2014) (Washington State Legislature, 2013).
First, when a patient attends to a medical service center, professionals do not need to discriminate him/her on any basis, may it be race, color, sex etc. on offering their services. The patients should gain admission for treatment even if they have any disabilities or from a different culture. We all know, patients need good doctors who make the health of their patients their first priority. Therefore, the patient’s treatment should be in accordance to their individual needs promoting dignity and their self-respect (Washington State Legislature, 2014). In case of payments, medical practitioners should inform the patients on the fees they are charged and the accepted form of payment, for example, patients should not be discriminated based on their credit worthiness. The patients too should not be discriminated against access to insurance transactions to pay for their bills (Washington State Legislatu...

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...patient, he/she will be notified 30 days before termination of their services and have a signed copy during their discharge (Washington State Legislature, 2014).
In conclusion, any medical practitioners going professional should be competent, having main obligation of the health of their patients being first priority. They should act in integrity abiding to the set laws protecting the rights of the patients. The outlined WAC 388-805-305 patients’ rights and RCW 49.60.030 civil rights, guides the practitioners to make sure they provide the best care and treatment to support them to live as well as possible.

Works Cited

Washington State Legislature, (2013). Revised Code of Washington (RCW). Retrieved from http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/
Washington State Legislature, (2014). Washington Administrative Code (RCW). Retrieved from http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx

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