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WorksheetsPatients' and Doctors' Rights
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 22mins
LGBT groups are deliberately excluded from participating in the development of policies that address HIV/AIDS. Choose the violated right:
right to pirivacy
right to life
right to participate in public policy
right to information
A woman with a diagnosis of schizophrenia is told by nursing staff that her abdominal pains are "all in her mind", she is later diagnosed as having ovarian cancer. Choose the violated right:
right to bodily integrity
right to liberty and security of a person
right to information
right to non-discrimination and equality
Hospitals routinely place Roma women in separate maternity wards. Choose the violated right:
right to equality and non-discrimination
right to liberty and security of a person
right to life
right to participate in public polivy
There is no regulation of working hours for medical staff who are frequently required to work in excess of 80 hours per week. Choose the violated right:
right to freedom of association
right to due process and related rights
right to fair pay and working conditions
Medical staff in X-ray department are frequently exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation due to faulty equipment that has not been replaced. Choose the violated right:
right ti information
right to highest attainable standards of health
right to bodily integrity
right to safe working conditions
A doctor is infected with HIV due to improperly sterilized medical equipment. Choose the violated right:
right to safe working conditions
right to freedom of association
right to fair trial
A doctor facing disciplinary proceedings is unable to obtain access to all the evidence presented against him in advance of his hearing. Choose the violated right:
right to information
right to due process and fair trial
right to non-discrimination and equality
right to privacy
A nurse facing a medical negligence suit has not still been given a hearing date five years after commencement of the proceedings. Choose the violated right:
right to due process and fair trial
right to privacy
right to information
right to participate in public policy
Ms K, born in 1948, forwarded a request to the chief of staff of an outpatient healthcare institution to change her primary care physician. She claimed that the doctor was inattentive and unqualified. The chief of staff refused to change the physician and suggested that Ms K switch to private clinic. Which patient's right was violated?
right to privace
right to free choice of a physician
right to information
right to medical secrecy
Ms T filed a complaint with the court of city K to compensate her for the damage caused by disclosure of her HIV-positive status and, as a consequence, loss of her employment. The health care institution where the woman underwent medical screening sent to her employer an excerpt from her patient's file that listed HIV-diagnosis. The plaintiff did not receive any information about her diagnosis from medical institution, instead the officials of medical institution informed her father about her diagnosis. Which patient's right was violated?
right to life
right to privacy and confidentiality
right to working in decent conditions
right to due process and fair trial
Mr A was transported to the AD of the emergency unit at the hospital from the scene of an accident with a double fracture of the lower limb. He was denied admission because during the processing of medical history the patient admitted that in the past he suffered from tuberculosis. Which right was violated?
right to highest attainable standard of health
right to life
right to information
right to non- discrimination for health reasons
Drug users die as a result of poor fire safety in a locked hospital ward. What is the violated right?
right to information
right to life
right to bodily integrity
right to highest attainable standard of health
Ms H who got into the car accident prematurely, started her maternity activity and gave birth to a child that weighed 600 grams. Nevertheless woman's request to provide the child with resuscitation care, medical workers did not consider the child viable and did not take any measures which caused the death of a child.
right to life
right to non-discrimination
right to information
right to highest attainable standard of health
Patients are given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) that is described to them as "sleep therapy". Which right is violated?
right to life
right to bodily integrity
right to non-discrimination
right to highest attainable standard of health
A person is denied mental health treatment while in detention and instead is locked in a solitary confinement. Which right is violated?
right to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
right to information
right to highest attainable standard of health
right to due process and fair trial
