And at the bottom are the patients, with few rights and so respectful of authority they are afraid to ask even the most basic questions about their treatment. It is an antiquated system where blunders are easily committed and just as easily covered up. Now, though, the media and activists are hoping to bring about a cure. Until the late 1940s, people tended to take physicians on faith. Terminally ill patients are usually not informed of their condition.
Patients get little explanation.
Drugs are often not labelled. Right to personal medical data. Second opinions are discouraged. In fact, many physicians react angrily when asked to explain a treatment. The nurse involved approached Nagai and told him she had been very busy that shift.