Carl Schneider, JD: Patient Decision-Making, Questioning Informed Consent, and Why IRBs Should Be Abolished
The External Medicine Podcast
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The Alternative to Informed Consent
I don't think there is any good way of telling doctors how they should work with patients in making decisions. I think that one of the best ways of doing it is to cause the physician to become seriously ill for a protracted period and to have the physician be the patient. Sometimes themselves testify to how powerful that is in changing their approach to informing patients. But as I said to you either during our recording or shortly before it, the entire population of mankind has such a range of variation on every axis that I cannot imagine a way of describing what should be done by a physician.
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