Rights involve responsibilities for patients

EDITOR—In the United Kingdom every citizen has the right to medical care. No longer limited to palliation, this care has become increasingly curative and even preventive as a result of the increase in knowledge that has accumulated from experience of the conditions that gave rise to its need. Rights, however, do not exist in a void and their …

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