Patients have the right to help themselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.
Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.
Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.
Make health care a right, not a privilege.
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.