Saturday, December 13, 2014

Why Doctors Should Study Human Rights.

"In a world where physicians in training are encouraged to know the "Patient's Bill of Rights"- posted on the walls of nearly every hospital and clinic in the country - why are we not teaching them the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights treaties and covenants?"

(By Ranit Mishori, associated professor of family medicine at Georgetown School Medicine in Washington DC. The Washington Post, PostEverything Section, December 10, 2014).


Read more: Why doctors should study human rights.

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