The right to apply contemporary scientific medical facilities:
This is the right of a physician, who is acquainted with the application areas of high technology in medicine during his/her medical education, to want to keep these developments alive in diagnosis and treatment in his/her professional life. The physician may refer his/her patient to a more technologically advanced centre.
The right to adhere to ethical principles while practising his/her profession:
Physicians may conflict with legal, political, social, aesthetic and economic values while practising their profession. The physician has the right to free and independent judgement in resolving this conflict.
Physician's right to practice his/her profession without being under pressure:
The physician has the right to reject any kind of pressure that may prevent the provision of the clinical freedom required by the physician in professional practice. In this situation, which may cause problems especially in the field of forensic medicine, the physician may apply to the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Turkish Medical Association, the World Association of Physicians and the European Commission on Human Rights.
The physician's right to avoid situations that are contrary to his/her values:
In a relationship where the patient's values are respected, physicians can also defend their own values. A physician should not be forced into practices that are contrary to his or her values.
The physician's right to protect his/her health:
Physicians have the right to demand working conditions that minimise health risks in the practice of their profession.
The physician's right to demand an adequate level of income:
Physicians should be paid for their services, which require heavy professional knowledge, intensive labour and are risky.
The physician's right to refuse the patient:
The basis of the patient-physician relationship is mutual trust. Physicians have the right to refuse a patient who does not trust them.
Physician's right to participate in administrative processes:
Physicians have the right to be influential in administrative processes in the institutions where they work and in the country where they live, and to express their opinions on health-related legislation.
Physician's right to consultation:
Physicians should have the right to counselling whenever they need it. This counselling process may be in question for ethical problems as well as diagnostic and therapeutic problems. Every physician has the right to seek counselling from a clinical ethicist in cases where they are unable to make ethical decisions.
The right not to guarantee a cure:
The physician finalises the treatment started, completes the deficiencies, and follows the patient until recovery. However, the physician has no right to say that the patient will recover completely. The patient cannot demand such a promise from the physician.
The right to allocate sufficient time:
The physician has the right to request sufficient time from the patient to take the necessary care, to record the information and documents in a good way, and to provide the patient with information about the disease.
The right to withdraw from testimony:
The physician has the right to abstain from testifying in civil cases on the grounds of professional secrecy.
The right to choose the method of treatment:
If more than one treatment method can be applied at the same time in the treatment of a disease, the physician is free to choose one of them.