ORIGIN OF INFORMED CONSENT
Origin of ‘informed consent’ and its implications In various relationships like marriage, Businesses, services, consumer goods, lawyer-clients, etc. It is always understood that a duty is liable like for example in the relationship between lawyers-clients the lawyers have a duty towards their clients to make disclosure of any conflict of interest that has arose and accordingly inform them and if the lawyer fails to do the same it is said to be a breach of duty on the lawyer’s part. The moral of the story is that the client should not be the one who should suffer for the mistake of the lawyer. Therefore the question here is that why should not the same rule apply to doctors that is should it not be the duty of a doctor to inform the patient about the necessary care and treatment. History "Informed consent" is a technical term first used in a medical malpractice United States court case in 1957. These practices are all part of what constitutes informed con...