No Informed Consent
Whenever a patient submits to an operation,
there should be an informed consent form for that patient to sign. The form
should lay out the risks of the procedure, or at a minimum should acknowledge
that the physician has informed the patient of the risks.
If a patient is not informed of the known risks
of a procedure to the extent that he/she is deprived of the chance to knowingly
decide whether or not the take the risk, there may be a potential medical
malpractice action when one of the risks occurs.
Medical ethics dictates that physicians in
research hospitals explain the experimental nature of new procedures to
patients. Ethics also expects that when physicians have a financial stake in the
research performed on human experiment subjects, the physician disclose that
stake to the patient.
Most people blindly trust their doctors to work
for their best interest, and put the individual patient's life above their
research, personal comfort and financial gain. When doctors betray this trust,
there is the potential for not only medical malpractice lawsuits, but also for
civil lawsuits based on the physician committing an assault (or an unwanted and
offensive touching of the patient without the patient's consent).
If you have had a procedure that has gone wrong
and your doctor didn't inform you of the risks, contact our office for a free
consultation today.
