PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reasonable Person
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October 4, 2011: physicians have a certain obligation to warn third parties of any danger in most cases, informed consent: The relationship between moral concepts and institutional ones. We ask questions about the kind of state that the person giving the consent was in sense 2. effective consent. We ask questions about what the doctor or other representatives of the institution did. Did they explain the information and not manipulate them, etc. We want to design this in such a way that will track the moral form of consent in sense. 1 they must make sure that as many patients that give autonomous authorization also have effective consent. There must be some consideration that doctors have other things to do besides developing informed consent. We have to design a policy where we can show the third parties (insurance companies, etc) that we took effective steps. To determine if a disclosure is adequate: community practice- meets the standard.
