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WHAT I DO: SURGICAL CONSENT
If I look back on 40-something-years of training and practicing medicine, I can certainly think of many things wrong with “the system.” But there’s so much positive, that it outweighs the negative, resulting in an amazing and wonderful career path for most doctors, and good treatment for their patients. That certainly was the case for me. But there were things. Things that drop the scale a little. And one of those things was the Informed Consent. I don’t know when this became a thing, but I do know that in my residency training, the need to obtain informed consent was drilled into our heads. We must get informed consent for…


