Denial of rights of medical patients

Visualization of narrower problems
Name(s): 
Lack of patient participation in medical decision-making
Disregard of patient's personal needs
Nature 
The doctor-patient relationship is not a therapeutic alliance in which the doctor and the patient decide together the best treatment, but usually the doctor alone decides the medically best treatment. Some argue that the lack of personalized care and involvement of patients in medical decision-making may further aggravate a patient's physical and psychological condition.
Incidence 
A 1992 UK survey found 1 in 4 patients complained about feeling as if they were on a medical "production line". One third of 39 UK hospital wards surveyed were waking patients at 6.30am and frequently keeping them waiting for another 2 hours for breakfast.
Broader 
Denial of rights to vulnerable groups
Unethical practices of health services
Denial of right to adequate medical care
Narrower 
Medical deception
Denial of rights of mental patients
Violation of medical confidentiality
Refusal to provide medical treatment
Denial of the right to medical consent
Related 
Uncoordinated expression of needs
Excessive exposure of medical patients to radiation
Denial to experimental animals of the right to freedom from suffering
Aggravates 
Institutionalized patients
Distrust of medical services
Irrelevant scientific activity
Aggravated by 
Scientific elitism
Medical paternalism
Invasion of privacy through testing
Secrecy of medical facts and records
Strategy(ies) 
Denying rights of medical patients
Recognizing patient's personal needs
Providing sufficient patient participation in medical decision-making
Abstaining from patient participation in medical decision-making
Reference(s) 
Peschel, Richard E and Peschel, Enid R: When a Doctor Hates a Patient: chapters from a young physicians life
Type 
(D) Detailed problems