{"title":"Informed consent in the difficult patient.","authors":"D Friedman","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In an effort to determine how and why we have arrived at such a sophisticated level of confusion in regard to the medicolegal ramifications of informed consent, the author provides a brief review of the evolution of the principle of informed consent as well as workable guidelines for avoiding potential problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":79717,"journal":{"name":"Resident and staff physician","volume":"32 1","pages":"103-5, 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1986-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Resident and staff physician","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In an effort to determine how and why we have arrived at such a sophisticated level of confusion in regard to the medicolegal ramifications of informed consent, the author provides a brief review of the evolution of the principle of informed consent as well as workable guidelines for avoiding potential problems.