Informed Consent Forms Could Use a Little Surgery

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Informed Consent Forms Could Use a Little Surgery

Buffalo News ran this great piece by Judy Foreman, sort of a review of how awful things are in the informed consent process these days. A dozen bioethics folks are quoted and the gist of the piece is that routine informed consent is insufficiently geared toward understanding and entirely too focused on shielding practitioners.

posted Sep 11, 2005 | link | jump to the comments (1)

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Remove the litigation pressure and doctors will be able to worry more about the health of a patient as opposed to a legal intrusion.

- by John Di Saia on Sep 26, 2005 at 1:46 AM | link

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