Assessment on Patient Right

According to the traditional form of life in pre-Enlightenment societies, human rights was less valuable than the interests of society. Therefore, the individual could only be an object for the construction of the higher values ​​of the society. By breaking down all the bonds of traditional society, modernism also clarified the position of man before society or clan: the individual. From now on the individual, as being the social values ​​itself, could has rights and freedoms before the law. In accordance with the traditional classification of classical rights, patient rights have also taken its place in the range of values. The individual, who is the subject of law, has become a value itself with modernism as a social being whose roots go back to the state of nature. With its historicalness extending from the state of nature to the rules of law, the individual has also become the source of legitimacy for a series of rights inherent in human beings. This legitimacy has also become the subject of rights like human life, environment and health as well as the moral values. In this context, patient rights are one of the legitimate, actual and natural rights of the modern individual. Patients’ rights don’t mean an abstract order of objects but the set of rights which embodied with a set of concrete, objective, protective improving legal rules. On the other hand, it should be considered as an obligation to analyze new approaches related to patient rights within the scope of modern legal rules.