Commentary: what we have here, is a failure to communicate.
The physician in Erde's clinical case study performed poorly in a number of aspects of informed consent and good physician-patient communication. However, the patient also failed to perform some of his own duties to participate in effective communication and so shares at least some responsibility for the bad outcome.
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Family Practice and Philosophy, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA.
D026822:Ethicists; D004989:Ethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D028681:Moral Obligations; D033262:Narration; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000601:surgery*; D010358:Patient Participation; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations