Alan Meisel and Mark Kuczewski | Legal and Ethical Myths About Informed Consent
Meisel and Kuczewski review eight myths that impede the practice of obtaining informed consent, due primarily to an understanding of the concept from a legal, rights-oriented point of view. When a shared process approach is used instead, in which patients and physicians each have access to interrelated facts and values, informed consent can accommodate both patient autonomy and physician responsibility.
-Informed ___________ of treatment means that a patient was told the predictable consequences of doing nothing.

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Informed refusal of treatment means that a patient was told the predictable consequences of doing nothing.