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Patients have rights. Here's how to use yours

  • Written by Lisa Eckstein, Senior Lecturer in Law and Medicine, University of Tasmania
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Working your way around the health-care system can be overwhelming. This is especially hard when care takes place in health systems under stress.

However as a patient, you have rights about how you’re treated. This includes not...

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