title: [Patient information and medical responsibility].
abstract: The duty of every physician to inform his patient, the failure of which can engage his responsibility, can be essentially considered from the following four angles: a duty to inform: why? a duty to inform: what duty? a duty to inform: how? a duty to inform: for whom?
authors.affiliation: Service d'Urologie, Hôpital de la Pitié, Paris.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chartier
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations
vernacular_title: Information du patient et responsabilité médicale.