Lekarski obowiązek a samostanowienie pacjenta
Physician’s Duty and Self-Determination of the Patient

Summary/Abstract: Polish legislation and deontology at the beginning of the twentieth century, there was no question of any patient’s autonomy as a course of treatment. However, over the years, and most of all, a significant increase in patient awareness, the nature of health care has changed. The patient could increasingly decide whether to undergo a specific treatment or not. However, a number of questions how far such autonomy, limit patients’ freedom to decide about their lives, for example in the context of religious or worldview. Keep in mind that the patient’s self-determination is not always respected by the law. This includes procedures such as abortion (with some exceptions) and euthanasia, which are prohibited by law. On one hand, shall be submitted to the protection of human life over the will of the patient. On the other hand doctor who would take on the medical services without the consent of the patient, there would attack the life or health because it acts on behalf of those goods, but attacks the patient’s freedom, the right to decide on the state of their own people and their own destiny.

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