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With rights comes responsibility. If a patient is provided with reasonable information about the risks and benefits of alternatives, and then supported in her choice between those alternatives, she cannot fairly claim later that the provider should have compelled her to make a different decision or that she couldn’t have understood the risks well enough to make a decision. Informed consent rests upon an assumption that, despite the esoteric nature of medical knowledge, ordinary people can assess their medical alternatives and make a decision about them—including a decision to go against their doctors’ advice. improvingbirth.org/2013/07/informed-consent-in-childbirth/
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:44:29 +0000

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