Patient’s Rights and Responsibilities
As our patient at AMC Manila, you have the
- Right to good quality health care and human treatment.
- Right to dignity.
- Right to be informed of your right and obligations as a patient.
- Right to choose your physician.
- Right to informed consent.
- Right to refuse diagnostic and medical treatment.
- Right to refuse participation in medical research.
- Right to religious belief and assistance.
- Right to privacy and confidentiality.
- Right to disclosure of, and access to information.
- Right to correspondence and to receive visitors.
- Right to medical records.
- Right to health education.
- Right to express grievances.
As our patient at AMC Manila, you have to
- Know your rights.
- Provide adequate, accurate and complete information about your health.
- Inform authorized personnel immediately when you notice any changes in your conditions or disease.
- Understand the reasons behind the treatment being performed and the necessary expenses requires of them.
- To accept the results/effects of treatment performed for the reason that all have been explained to you since the start.
- Fulfill your financial obligations of paying for all services and care rendered by both the hospital and your doctors.
- Be considerate and respectful of the rights of other patients and hospital personnel.
- Perform your obligations to yourself.
- Participate and cooperate in all your obligations for the improvement of your health.
- Always respect this health facility and all personnel involved in its mission.
- Remain true to all discussions/conversation that you were a part of.
- Do not force any physician to care and attend to you.
- Respect and understand the rationale behind the physician’s treatment options even though they go against your faith.
- That all your health records are true and were not changed in any way, whether they were given or taken from AMCM.
- To cooperate with physicians in their training for expert treatment/care of children.
- To inform to proper authorities of this hospital of all violations as perceived by you.