Informed Consent Revisited: A Doctrine in the Service of Cancer Care - The Oncologist

Informed Consent Revisited: A Doctrine in the Service of Cancer Care -- Schachter and Fins 13 (10): 1109 -- The Oncologist

Empathetic and attentive interest in patients facilitates an understanding about patients' physiological and psychological needs. Significantly, it enables the physician to contextualize the patient's decision within the patient's moral and values framework. If there is a paradox in all of this, it is that the ideal of informed consent rests as much in the physician educating the patient as it does in the patient educating the physician.