Dreptul la o viață sănătoasă și la un sfârșit în demnitate
The right to a healthy life and a death in dignity

Summary/Abstract: The author, doctor of medicine, deals with the topic of the right to healthcare, mainly in the case of incurable patients and patients in the final stage of the disease, in terms of the respect for human dignity. Particular attention is attached to the category of patients suffering from Alzheimer, the author insisting upon the need for increased effectiveness of the healthcare system as well as for better collaboration between social and healthcare services. While presenting the pros justifying the consensual attitude against the practice of euthanasia, the author points out the fact that medicine ought to offer the patients tormented by unbearable pain a life and a death without suffering by improving the palliating healthcare by a wider range of therapeutic means (psycho-therapeutic and medicinal ones). Unfortunately, Romania is one country with very low consumption of opiates to reduce unbearable pain. The risk of addiction should be subordinated to the suppression of pain and associated sufferings.

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