A Patient’s Infinite Bill of Rights
A patient is a spiritual being who does not realize
who he or she is
A patient is a human god who thinks he or she is
merely human
A patient has the right to resist how others define
him or her
A patient has the right to be non-compliant when belittled
A patient is responsible for himself or herself and
their own self-definition
A patient has the right to respect or to disrespect
himself or herself
A patient has the right to accept his or her own freedom
or not
A patient has the right to self-diagnosis and self-treatment
A patient has the right to re-diagnose and re-treat
himself or herself
A patient has the right to be question his or her own
story
A patient has the right to investigate the spiritual
meaning of his or her symptoms
A patient has the right to be Self-aware or not
A patient’s illness confirms and denies his or
her mediocrity
A patient has the right to refuse to accept mediocrity
Only a patient can exercise his or her own rights
A patient has the right to accept or reject all of his
rights to be sick or well
A patient has no right to interfere with others rights
to be sick or well
A patient is someone who believes that he or she is
sick, but ought to be well
A patient is someone who is overwhelmed by the belief
that "I am my body."
A patient is someone who does not realize that all power
in heaven and earth is given to us
A patient has the right to make mistakes and to forgive
doctors who make mistakes
A patient has the right to forgive his or her own
judgments and those of doctors and others
A patient has the right to appreciate and understand
his or her symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
A patient has the right to realize that all healing
is self-healing
A patient is always his or her own doctor
A doctor is always his or her own patient
A patient has the right to believe that he or she will
live forever
A patient’s rights are given to him and to her
by God and by nothing else
You are not a patient and you need no rights