Patients Rights

PATIENTS RIGHTS Insert Name Course Grade Instructor`s Name Date Patients Rights Introduction Any patient worldwide has his/her rights, which are either guaranteed by the federal law or the state`s law, which states the ethical behaviors of every practitioner, as an effect, in medical trials, there two major documents that have stipulated ethical considerations. Such documents are the Nuremberg Code, and the Belmont Report. This essay aims at addressing the significance of the Nuremberg Code and the Belmont Report. It highlights why the events that led up to their creation are important and how their creation affects the ethical issues surrounding clinical trials today. Moreover, it describes ethical restraints and guidelines exist for conducting clinical trials and how this pertains to special populations like the minors, prisoners, persons with mental disabilities amongst others. Nuremberg Code Nuremberg Code is one of the most dramatic as well as the most popular chapter in the entire history of research that involves human participants. The cord was established after criminal proceeding of against some Germany physicians as well as administrators by the American military tribunal for their intentional war crimes as well as crimes against humanity. The physicians were charged with the use of human participants in medical experiments without their consent. This events were of great importance to the current world as they ascertained that some medical experiments carried out on human participants under reasonable environment and well defined boundaries confirms to the medical research ethics. This is based on the fact that such experiments that were carried out on human beings without their consent led to greater innovations as a result of their practical results. Some of these cures could not have been attained by through studies or other methods Weindling 2001). Though this is very important to me...