Informed Consent: No Longer Just What the Doctor Ordered? Revisited

Abstract

Several years ago, I authored what I intended as a comprehensive paper on the less “conventional” aspects of informed consent, largely focusing on matters more personal to the “disclosing” physician. Since that time, other authors have commented on some of these matters. As the law of informed consent has continued to develop and courts have recently considered informed consent issues unrelated to the typical required disclosure, I have concluded that it is time to revisit the unconventional and other selected topics of informed consent.