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Article: Patient consent forms should educate not intimidate.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- January 21, 2009
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It's time patient consent forms came back full circle to a tool for patient education, rather than the waiver of liability they have become. The original purpose of the consent forms was for a surgeon or doctor to inform the patient of common or serious risks associated with the procedure to be performed. However, the way current consent forms are written u as formal, legal documents u plants a litigious relationship in both the patient's and the surgeon's mind even before treatment has begun. Lawrence Brenner is an attorney on the faculty of the Department of Orthopedics at Yale University. He and his colleagues propose a set of five recommendations to return consent ...