It would also permit patients to see and correct errors in their medical records, just as they can with credit records.

- Which HMOs permit patients to appeal denials of treatments?

He said it should also "permit elderly, debilitated or ulcer-prone patients to continue arthritis therapies they might otherwise have to interrupt."

The initiative permits patients, with a doctor's recommendation, to grow marijuana legally for their own treatment.

Indian law permits women who are destitute or mental patients to be kept in jail until alternative accommodation is found for them.

The initiative was to permit patients with certain debilitating conditions to use medical marijuana.

He said the alliance will allow a seamless health care delivery system, permitting patients to receive treatment at the larger institution and recuperate in a community hospital closer to home.

"It would be unconscionable to permit vulnerable, and sometimes desperate, patients to fall victim to unscrupulous drug vendors," he said.

These regulations will permit patients wishing to remain in the hospital to appeal to outside review agencies when they believe they have been asked to leave prematurely.

That year, the Legislature passed a law permitting patients with cancer and glaucoma to obtain marijuana from the state.