title: The doctor's duty of disclosure and excessive information liability.
abstract: This article critically examines the recent phenomenon of legal liability for so-called excessive disclosure within the context of the informed consent doctrine. An attempt is made to formulate a set of workable principles to cater for both the doctor's dilemma and the patient's protection in over-information cases against the backdrop of the general principles of the doctor's duty to disclose.
authors.affiliation: University of Pretoria, South Africa.
authors.forename: F F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: van Oosten
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D030881:Disclosure; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016365:Liability, Legal; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013019:South Africa