Health Sciences 3820A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Consumerism, Hearing Aid
11 Jan 2019
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Lecture 1 - consent and methods of knowing. The average person is an entity, and all of us are different from the average person. There are three forms of consent and four methods of knowing. According to downie and mcnaughton, there are three ways of thinking of medical consent in the field of medicine. This applies to all healthcare professionals: agreeing. Decisions about appropriate patient care are entirely the responsibility of the practitioner, while the patient accepts the treatment w/o objection. Whatever the practitioner says, the patient has to agree. The patient really has no concrete role or rights, making it the weakest form of consent. You just give in to whatever the practitioner is saying. Decisions about appropriate care are entirely the responsibility of the patient. The practitioner"s only role is to carry out the instructions of the patient. You give the practitioner the right to do something.
