Month: May 2017
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Excerpts ~ ACOG Committee Opinions 166 & 214 on “Informed Refusal” & the “Patient Autonomy: The Maternal-Fetal Relationship”
Opinion #166 ~ “Informed Refusal” ~ notes: Almost universally, informed consent laws have been liberalized … from the relatively paternalistic “professional or reasonable physician” standard to the “materiality of patient viewpoint” standard. … In the “patient viewpoint” standard, a physician must disclose … the risks and benefits that a reasonable person in the patient’s position would want to know in order…