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Originally Posted by allaboutmusic
As long as there are safeguards to ensure that the patient is taking a properly informed decision, I don't see the problem.
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That is the problem with business ethics now a days. It is really impossible to ensure an informed consent since only the expert will truly grasp the possible effects. Even if they client/family "knows" death is a possibility, they still just don't get it...
They first need to sign a wavier that says:
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I, [YOUR NAME] ____________________________, don't really understand shit about what the doctor/engineer/researcher is actually talking about especially when it is written in lawyer-speak. I sign this agreement here so that in the event of everything my doctor/engineer/researcher warned me about with simple terms/words/charts/pictures/cartoons drawn in crayon I won't call the first lawyer I can think of in order to sue.
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What about grey areas such as where the patient is in a coma etc?
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Then I guess they can't consent, but families can.