Medicolegal Sidebar: Informed Consent in the Information Age
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Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Medicolegal Sidebar: Informed Consent in the Information Age.
W e read with interest the Medicolegal Sidebar column on obtaining informed consent in the information age.We agree with the legal doctrine of informed consent, where a doctor must provide enough information to help the patient make enlightened healthcare choices. Yet physicians frequently omit certain steps in obtaining informed consent. For instance, they often provide insufficient informatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0009-921X
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-015-4440-5