ABSTRACT
Objective:Investigate the awareness of their own rights and the safeguarding of the rights in practice,raise the patients' sense of safeguarding of the rights and help them defend the legal rights.Methods:A survey was taken among patients by applying the questionnaire.Results:There are 5 items about the patients' knowledge about their own rights and 3 items about defending their rights in practice,in which more than 85 percent of 111 patients chose the answer "always or almost".From this we can see that the awareness and safeguarding of their rights are not good enough.Conclusion: The government is appealed to break up the existence of the monopoly mold in medical treatment and to take measures to protect the rights of patients.The medical personnel should renew their concepts,pay more attention to publicizing and defending patients' rights,and help patients realize their rights.