Thursday 27 October 2016

Patients must understand options, says Royal College of Surgeons

Patients must understand options, says Royal College of Surgeons

New guidance represents end of ‘paternalistic’ approach to inform-and-consent between surgeon and patient, after law change

Surgeons should stop being “paternalistic” and simply lay out all the options to “let patients choose” whether to undergo surgery, according to radical new guidance for medics. 

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