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Landmark health laws

The laws framing care in France: patients' rights (Kouchner, 2002), end of life (Leonetti, 2005; Claeys-Leonetti, 2016), abortion (Veil, 1975, time limit extended in 2022, freedom written into the Constitution in 2024), bioethics (2021), psychiatric care without consent (2011) and the Évin law (1991).

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  • Kouchner law (4 March 2002): what is it?

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    The law on patients' rights: information, consent, direct access to medical records, trusted person.

    It puts the patient at the centre of the decisions about them.

  • A patient asks to see their medical record. Which law gives this right?

    • The Kouchner law of 4 March 2002
    • The Veil law
    • The Évin law
    • The 2021 bioethics law
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    The Kouchner law of 4 March 2002

    They access it directly, without having to go through a doctor.

  • Access to medical records: what is it?

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    The patient can obtain their record directly, within 8 days, or within 2 months for information over 5 years old.

    It is a right from the 2002 law.

  • What is the unreasonable obstinacy banned by the Leonetti law?

    • Refusing all care
    • Relieving pain
    • Continuing treatments that are useless, disproportionate or only keep life going artificially
    • Informing the patient
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    Continuing treatments that are useless, disproportionate or only keep life going artificially

    Stopping a treatment does not mean stopping care.

  • Leonetti law (22 April 2005): what is it?

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    An end-of-life law that bans unreasonable obstinacy and creates advance directives.

    A pointless treatment may be stopped or not started, while care continues.

  • A dying patient with refractory suffering asks to sleep until death. Which law frames this request?

    • The Kouchner law
    • The 2016 Claeys-Leonetti law
    • The Évin law
    • The 2011 psychiatry law
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    The 2016 Claeys-Leonetti law

    Deep, continuous sedation is decided collectively.

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