
For informed consent
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Accordingly, we believe it is ethically acceptable, and ought to be legally permissible, to allow treating physicians to rely on these team members for help in performing their consent duties. After calling the committee, be sure to also call the district office of your own state representative. Given to broaden the revisions with intense time is informed consent is wrong while on qualified person putting his consents has caught the procedure would want to? The author thanks his wife, Janice, for her inspiration and support. While physicians universally remain responsible for defects in the process, hospitals have escaped liability in most cases. Because physicians are ultimately responsible for obtaining informed consent, members of the Medical Staff must be directly involved in making these decisions. Some of the same considerations noted above for determining capability of children to provide assent should be considered when determining whether assent should be in writing or oral. The second section will examine whether the treating physician may delegate the duty to explain the risks and alternatives of a procedure to another.