title: Informed consent to septoplasty: an anecdote from the field.
abstract: This paper tells the story of events that led up to a septoplasty and the consequences that followed it. The patient is a medical ethicist. After scratching the inside of a nostril in 1976, he suffered with occasional bleeding and irritation for almost two decades. He tried topical treatment. As this failed, he sought help from an ENT specialist. The paper relates the conduct of the patient and others (friends in the medical field, the patient's spouse, nurses and anesthesiologists) vis-à-vis informed consent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford 08004-1350, USA.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Erde
mesh_terms: D030881:Disclosure; D026822:Ethicists; D004989:Ethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D033062:Friends; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D008875:Middle Aged; D033262:Narration; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000601:surgery*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations