In Consenting to Treatment, What Does a Patient Need From a Doctor? Trust? What Else?</a>
Carol Powers Carol Powers

In Consenting to Treatment, What Does a Patient Need From a Doctor? Trust? What Else?

Patient dignity and self-determination demand consent before treatment. The more consequential or irreversible the treatment, the more informed and explicit the consent should be. But consent, practically and psychologically, rests on trust. (Not necessarily the trustworthiness of the clinician, but how much the patient trusts the physician.)

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