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The Patients Bill of Rights (2018) doesn’t support your tweet. Patients have an unalienable right to privacy and to choose or change their Health Care Provider. The PBoR includes the following rights: 1. Right to information: Patients have the right to receive relevant information about their diagnosis, treatment, and other procedures. This information must be conveyed in a manner the patient understands. 2. Right to care: Patients have the right to receive urgent, immediate, and sufficient care in an emergency. 3. Right to privacy: Patients have the right to privacy 4. Right to decline care: Patients have the right to decline care, subject to prevailing laws and after being fully informed of the consequences 5. Right to participate in medical research: Patients have the right to decline or accept participation in medical research, experimental procedures, or clinical trials 6. Right to complain: Patients have the right to express dissatisfaction with services received. 7. Right to visitation: Patients have the right to reasonable visitation. 8. Right to billing: Patients have the right to transparent billing and full disclosure of any costs. 9. Right to be respected: Patients must be treated with respect, regardless of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, economic circumstances or allegations of crimes. 10. Right to be included in treatment/ care plans: Patients have a right to know the health care team and to develop a collaborative plan to prevent recurrence of medical problems 11. Patients have a right to be treated in clean, safe and secure healthcare environment. I hope this helps.