Presumed consent: yes we should

Yes, We Can! (Should We?).

What is presumed when we presume consent?

BACKGROUND The organ donor shortfall in the UK has prompted calls to introduce legislation to allow for presumed consent: if there is no explicit objection to donation of an organ, consent should be presumed. The current debate has not taken in account accepted meanings of presumption in law and science and the consequences for rights of ownership that would arise should presumed consent become...

In spite of good results with 'inject and cut', should we scrutinize it? - yes, we should!

(2) Moreover, there is no agreement on and no international standardization of diagnostic criteria, which range from subjective macroscopic aspect, real and virtual chromoendoscopy and endomicroscopic methods up to optical biopsy and high-resolution endosonography [4] . (3) The same holds true for the definition and standardization of endoscopic techniques. Procedures such as polypectomy, EMR, ...

Should we abandon the periodic health examination?: YES.

Dr Mavriplis states that it is often difficult to dedicate time for preventive care in a busy family practice. According to McWhinney,1 if every patient in a practice of 2000 had a 20-minute annual health examination, it would occupy the physician full-time for 22 weeks of every year. Another study estimated that more than 40% of all direct patient time for primary care physicians is taken up b...

Presumed consent: a problematic concept.

issue, that of the increasing shortage of kidneys available for transplantation worldwide (1). As a solution for India, Kaushik favours the introduction of the “presumed consent” system to allow retrieval of organs from recently deceased persons. In this system, unless an individual has specifically expressed, in writing, during her/his lifetime, that he/she is unwilling to donate an organ foll...