What is the standard of care required for a doctor to ask a patient for consent?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Friedsam v. Ng, 1993 CanLII 1129 (BC CA):
30 In both the cases I have referred to the Chief Justice noted the nature of this process. In Louis v. Robinson, supra, he said at p. 8 of his reasons: ... these matters are usually discussed conversationally with questions and answers on both sides. It is not a matter of a doctor describing the risks in a monologue and the patient consenting or not consenting thereafter.
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