What is the legal obligation of a doctor to disclose information to a patient?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Anderson-Redick v. Graham, 2000 ABQB 36 (CanLII):
Individuals have the right to make their own health care decisions. In order to exercise this right in a meaningful way, a patient needs sufficient information to make an informed choice about medical treatment. Thus, except in limited circumstances, doctors are under a legal obligation to provide a patient with material information relating to a proposed treatment or procedure: Hopp v. Lepp, supra. This obligation has been called the “doctrine of informed consent” or, in some cases, the “duty of disclosure”.
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