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A 4 page paper. This essay discusses the legal need for consent forms, the need for consent forms to inform, a new way for physicians to perceive these forms, the importance of them and comments from the CMS regarding these forms. The last part of the paper discusses the issue or emergencies and emergency rooms and what they do about consent forms. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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These lawsuits do not have to be about malpractice, they can be about performing a procedure, giving an experimental drug, or enrolling a patient in a research or experimental program
or any number of things. If any procedure is performed without a patients consent, the courts will view it as battery (Yale-New Haven Hospital & Yale University School of Medicine,
n.d.). The consent form for hospital procedures has been in debate for a long time. Anyone who has ever been admitted to the hospital for anything knows how this procedure
goes. Most often, the patient is presented with the consent form that may be one page but is usually more than one and asked to sign it. The nurse or
doctor generally explain that it just gives them your consent or approval to perform whatever procedure is to be performed. If the patient insists on reading the entire thing, the
nurse or doctor may well become impatient. And, hospitals tend to view these forms as just another administrative burden (Heerwagen, 2008). The issue is that, as one Handbook said, there
are many physicians who perceive the consent form nothing more than a formality that must be completed (Yale-New Haven Hospital & Yale University School of Medicine, n.d.). This is the
wrong way to think about it, instead, physicians should look at this "formality" as a way to communicate with the patient (Yale-New Haven Hospital & Yale University School of Medicine,
n.d.). When it is used in this way, it can be a foundation for trust between the physician and patient (Yale-New Haven Hospital & Yale University School of Medicine, n.d.).
This is important because very often, the physician that will perform the procedure is not the patients primary physician so they are strangers. This type of conversation between physician
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