Dreptul la corecta informare a pacientului în relația sa cu medicina științifică clasică și cu terapiile naturale neconvenționale
The right to correctly inform the patient in his/her relationship with the classical scientific medicine and the non-conventional naturist therapies

Summary/Abstract: The person's right to correct, explicit and complete information on the person's status of health or disease belongs with the patient's rights, which are legally consecrated in Romania. Unfortunately, the author remarks, it is one of those insufficiently implemented rights. In this respect, an eloquent example is that of the naturist, unconventional, alternative medicine, or complementary with the allopathic medicine. Some of those practising the naturist medicine lack an adequate training and are either incompetent or even irresponsible. Publicity in the field often gives unjustified hopes to the patients, while the lack of adequate legislation allowed for an anarchic development and, by way of consequence, the impossibility to institute a control for the protection of the patients. The author refers, besides other things, to the exaggerated commercials in favour of many “nutritional supplements” presented as kind of cure-all, whereas they don't actually cure diseases but only help with the good functioning of certain organs. He also refers to the almost unintelligible nature of the cautionary advice about the possible undesired effects.

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