Perspectives of being a patient: Expectations, rights and responsibilities?

Abstract

From a healthy person when a person becomes a patient may be a matter of short duration or long duration depending upon the type of illness. A patient when reaches to the health provider have many expectations some of which is easy to fulfil others may be difficult to be met with. Care providers must know these expectations so that they know them, understand them and try to fulfil the possible expectations. Some of these may be enshrined in the rights of the patients and these rights of the patients have to be taken care of and it will be possible only when all medical and health professionals know well about it and in detail. Along with the expectations and rights of the patient there are responsibilities of the patient too which patients must fulfil to have a better experience and comforts in the different settings of the health professionals.