
Ep. 64: Informed Consent - how much direction do patients actually want?
Law Pod UK
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The Obsetrician's Obligation to Offer a Fetal Blood Sample
The case is called tasman. The claimant's mother was in the last stages of ver. She was an hour or so away, in retrospect, from delivering. In those circumstances, the roral college guidance and the nice guidance would tell the obsetrician that a fetal blood sample should be formed. And that is exactly what the defendant trust accepted should have been done. He has a an obligation to act according to the empirically based guidan of his own royal college set against the complete autonomy that montgomery on its face would appear to offer. But i am afraid, i am entirely sure, that this is not what the court thought would happen,. because they weren't considering
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