INFORMED CONSENT issue is frequently incorporated into medical negligence lawsuits. For decades, physicians, lawyers, courts, and scholars have struggled trying to elucidate the standard for determining when a patient's consent is truly "informed." There is a need for a "workable balance" between "two competing values: (1) the ethical value of patient autonomy and (2) the medical ethic of beneficence," which are the natural byproducts of informed consent law.
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