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Patient rights and claim to know

Spanish law recognizes a number of patients rights in documents like the General Health Act 1986, which sets out fundamental rights and duties of the patient and the general principles of universality and equality, or the Spanish Constitution, which contains in its Article 43 The right of citizens to health protection and the obligation of public authorities to organize and protect public health through preventive measures and the benefits and services.

* RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE. Defend the rights of users of the public system to the assignment of a physician and the drugs needed to maintain or restore their health.

* RIGHT TO INFORMATION. The patient is entitled to know all available information about your health, communicated in a comprehensible manner, so that he be allowed to decide their own free will. What is meant by informed consent.

* RIGHT TO ACCESS TO OUR HISTORY. As an extension of that right to be informed about our health.

* RIGHT TO CHOICE. Refers to both the right to choose doctors and other medical devices, such as the right to choose among the options presented to it for healing or maintaining health.

* RIGHT TO PARTICIPATION. Right to complain or make suggestions.

* RIGHT TO PRIVACY, TO RESPECT YOUR PERSONALITY, A NOT DISCRIMINATE ON GROUNDS OF RACE, SEX, RELIGION, ECONOMIC, ETC.

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