From Person to Patient: Your Rights
Today’s articles in the NY Times series, Being a Patient, examine how hospitals shift people into patients and ways patients can remind staff of their humanness. Although people with headache aren’t hospitalized frequently, some headache clinics use in-patient programs to try to break pain cycles and horrendous ER stories abound.
The first article, In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift From Person to Patient, describes staff behavior that dehumanizes patients and how chronic pain patients’ perceptions are altered by pain.
Essential but Uncommon Knowledge: Patients Have Many Rights. Just Ask. details the rights that all patients have and what role they have in getting their own needs met. This article requires registration.
Last Updated on July 23, 2013 by Kerrie Smyres
