Patient Rights Pillows

'If the treatment is unsuccessful, do you give back the information I released?'

Medical whistle blowers.

Virtual Doctor

'Sorry the doctor is running behind. You can keep today's appointment or I can fit you in tomorrow...whichever comes first.'

Invoice: 'That's good laughter is the best medicine.'

'Bored?'

There aren't any serious side effects — just an occasional Elvis sighting.

Stethoscope line.

"Fill out all these highly intrusive forms...we can't wait!"

Cops' Right to Beat You in Private Shall Not Be Infringed

After Roe v. Wade, a Class Divide Between Abortion Haves and Havenots

Privacy Stops Where the Parking Lot Begins

Facelook

'Your call is very important to us, so please continue to hold.'

"Dehumanization, maybe, but not depersonalization."

Your DNA is in the database.

Doctor's profits match a patient's scar.

'You gotta help me, doctor! I took a deep breath to get some fresh air and inhaled my Blackberry!'

"If it takes the GMC 20 years to spot a rogue surgeon what chance have you got in 20 minutes?"

'I recommend a second opinion so the HMO won't second guess me.'

"The doctor will see you in a week - if you could still be ill a week on Wednesday."

Giving Up a Little Privacy

'The BILL OF RIGHTS? Are you trying to make trouble?'

A feast in a hospital bed.

"It seems all doctors agree with you, but I'd still like to get a 15th opinion."

'There's only one side effect from this medication. It starts when you don't pay my bill!'

Espionage in the European Union.

"They had their names removed using the right to be forgotten."

'I can give up drinking and lead a normal life?- Make up your mind, will you?'

Mortified that her hospital gown did not close all the way in the back...

US Health Care.

"Take me! After 15 minutes of cell phone chatter and day-time TV, a colonoscopy will be a relief!"

"My blood type...it's the type that doesn't like to exercise."

"A stripper in Ohio claims her privacy was violated when a patron took a picture of her while she was performing, thus invoking her Constitutional right to irony."

Privacy.