From our earliest days in medical school, we learned that treatment requires a patient’s informed consent. What is less often taught is how to obtain that consent in a manner that withstands legal ...

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Much has changed since the last guideline of 2008, both in endoscopy and in the practice of obtaining informed consent, and it is vital that all endoscopists who are responsible for performing ...

Some philosophers have argued that during the process of obtaining informed consent, physicians should try to nudge their patients towards consenting to the option the physician believes best, where a ...