CAS PH 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Informed Consent, Decision-Making, Minutiae
20 Nov 2018
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These rules have roots in the principles of autonomy. Used to be normal for doctors to blatantly lie or not say the whole truth or just to hint at it in medicine. Doctors thought practicing medicine had a duty to keep from harming people- also in the form of not telling them something that would upset them. It was very open ended to tell the patients whatever, but there were instances that made them give full disclosure e. g. emergency. For some patients who were in denial of their condition, it was critical to tell them that they have a terminal illness- important for autonomy and self-determination. Patients weren"t given the right to make their own decision in fact it was thought to be bad because they didn"t know enough to know what is right to do,- patients aren"t rational because they don"t know medicine. This new view is actively radical from the old one.
