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2. Informed consent - Wikipedia

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   The informed consent doctrine is generally implemented through good healthcare practice: pre-operation discussions with patients and the use of medical consent forms in hospitals. However, reliance on a signed form should not undermine the basis of the doctrine in giving the patient an opportunity to weigh and respond to the risk.

3. Lanterman–Petris–Short Act - Wikipedia

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   However, in the 1987 case of Riese v. St. Mary’s Hospital and Medical Center, the California Court of Appeal declared that these people had the right to exercise informed consent regarding the use of antipsychotic drugs, except in an emergency, and if they rejected medication "a judicial determination of their incapacity to make treatment ...

4. Informed refusal - Wikipedia

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   Informed refusal is where a person has refused a recommended medical treatment based upon an understanding of the facts and implications of not following the treatment. [1] [2] Informed refusal is linked to the informed consent process, as a patient has a right to consent, but also may choose to refuse.

5. Refusal of medical assistance - Wikipedia

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   Refusal of Medical Assistance (RMA) is guided by the principle of informed consent, meaning patients must fully understand what they are refusing and the potential consequences of their decision. This ensures that only those capable of making informed decisions—mentally competent individuals—can refuse treatment.

6. Canterbury v. Spence - Wikipedia

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   Jerry Watson Canterbury (1939-2017) was an FBI clerk who suffered a ruptured disk in 1958. [1] He received laminectomy by Dr. William T. Spence, a well-known Washington neurosurgeon, and as a result of the surgery, and a subsequent fall from his bed while hospitalized, he ended up paralyzed below the waist and incontinent.

7. Consent - Wikipedia

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   The resulting consent is shaped in a neoliberal form of contractualism which makes a withdrawal of consent or a change in the conditions of the activity at stake rather challenging. This form of consent as a contract is assuming consent to happen between two (or more) individual and rational actors and it does not give room to forms of ...