Patients' Rights and the Quality of Medical Care.

The article discusses the significance for medical personnel to ensure quality of medical care provided to patients in the U.S. It notes that thousands of patients die needlessly or have the quality of their remaining life irreparably damaged due to incompetent medical care by physicians, stressing that few standards of ethics or practice have been set within the American Medical Association (AMA). Harvard University professor of legal medicine William Curan emphasizes the importance of including medical ethics which focuses more on patients' rights and patients' equity in medical care in medical schools curriculum.