Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties, Instruments and Legislation
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
- Chapter 2 Legal Complexity
- Chapter 3 Financial Affordability
- Chapter 4 Information Obstacles
- Chapter 5 Conclusions and Suggestions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties, Instruments and Legislation
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
- Chapter 2 Legal Complexity
- Chapter 3 Financial Affordability
- Chapter 4 Information Obstacles
- Chapter 5 Conclusions and Suggestions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care. There can be no competition or compensation between these essential factors on the one side, and honour, pomp, rank and reputation on the other, however much value we may set upon the latter. No one would hesitate to sacrifice the latter for the former, if it were necessary. We should add very much to our happiness by a timely recognition of the simple truth that every man's chief and real existence is in his own skin, and not in other people's opinions; and, consequently, that the actual conditions of our personal life, health, temperament, capacity, income, wife, children, friends, home, are a hundred times more important for our happiness than what other people are pleased to think of us: otherwise we shall be miserable.
(Schopenhauer)Being a patient is possibly never easy. In the vast majority of cases, it is – at best – an inconvenient situation to be in. This unease might well be intensified if someone is seeing a doctor abroad in an unfamiliar setting. What are the obstacles a border-crossing patient faces and how can these barriers be overcome? These are the questions which particularly fascinated me during the years of my research. My ambition was to detect and to bring a better understanding of those legal issues which are potentially problematic when obtaining healthcare abroad and to examine whether these can be solved with the legal tools currently available on the European level. The main question behind this research was how the current landscape of European cross-border patient mobility legislation can be improved in a way that better serves patients’ interests while respecting the responsibilities of the Member States in this field.
Principally, this book aims to analyse the European legal framework governing cross-border patient movements from a strictly patient-centred approach. I confess that as a social lawyer, my main interest is the social status of the individual.
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- Free Movement of Patients in the EUA Patient's Perspective, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: IntersentiaPrint publication year: 2018