Informed Consent
Informed consent is an individual's voluntary agreement, based on adequate understanding of relevant facts, to permit some type of intervention by a second party. This term is ...
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Informed Consent
A fundamental requirement of both ethics and the law is that medical treatment cannot be given to competent patients without their "informed consent." This represents a ...
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Informed Consent in the Practice of Law
The doctrine of informed consent has deeper historical roots in the practice of law than in the practice of medicine. The modern rule that medical treatment can...
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