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.
-The purpose of ___________ is to allow physicians to do what is good for patients while not inflicting harm on them.

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Therapeutic privilege allows physicians to withhold specific information from patients if disclosing it is believed to cause harm or hinder recovery, aligning with the goal of doing good while avoiding harm.