title: Myth and reality. Recent NJ Supreme Court decisions and the physician-patient relationship.
abstract: The NJ Supreme Court recently decided that a physician must obtain the patient's informed consent based on a discussion of all medically reasonable alternative treatments, regardless of whether the recommended course is noninvasive. The meaning of the phrase "medically reasonable," however, poses its own problems.
authors.affiliation: Greenberg, Dauber, Epstein and Tucker, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Greenberg
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009515:New Jersey; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014342:Truth Disclosure