Patient-doctor-relationship

The subject of this thesis is one very important relationship of health care - the doctor- patient-relationship. During a recent decades a big attention was paid to this theme both on international and czech field. In the Czech Republic the doctor-patient-relationship went through the essential change, when instantly changed from a paternalistic relationship to a partnership. Many legal changes followed this change finishing it by accepting the Act on Healthcare Services which for example describes rights and duties of subjects of this relationship. The first part is dedicated to a doctor-patient-relationship itself. Its history and evolution, placement in a legal system, legal form. One part is dedicated to an ethic aspect of doctor-patient-relationship. The second part discusses about rights and duties of both participants of this relationship. Specifically, rights determined by the Act on Healthcare Services. The third part is dedicated to detailed analysis of some basic patient's rigths and the doctor's duties characterizing doctor-patient-relationship in its current form. These are informed consent, where I describe, why it is needed. I was concerned about its requisites, possibility to abandon informed consent, to informed dissent including its form while a short look on an issue of..