Informed consent in the difficult patient.
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.
D005568:Forms and Records Control; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014342:Truth Disclosure