Right to make Informed decisions about Medical Treatments

Liberty
, , ,
1

The purpose:

  • Restore public trust in healthcare providers.
  • Establish the age when an individual has the legal capacity to give consent.
  • Hold any legal entity liable for knowingly manipulating persons into making uninformed decisions they regret later.

There is an indisputable essential right to informed consent.
“This means that the person involved should have the legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved, as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.” - [The Nuremberg Code]

A person who has the legal capacity to give consent is a person who can legally purchase products or obtain services that are legal in the USA. Parental/legal guardian’s informed consent must be required for a person incapable of informed consent.

Any non-medical professional, including school teachers, CPS workers, social media influencers, etc., should be criminally charged for interfering with another individual’s right to informed decisions about their health.

Medical providers who fail to provide all the information necessary for fully informed medical decisions must be liable for five years after their patients discover damages caused by uninformed choices.

Except for DNR orders, this should exclude life-threatening situations when first responders/medical providers don’t have the physical ability to obtain consent.

3 Likes
2

Yes! Honestly, this is one of the MOST IMPORTANT issues in medicine today. There is not much informed consent. Patients must be told about bad side-effects (which our MDs minimize-per the “dialog” that is fed to them by their Pharma reps). For instance, Statins are very dangerous and eventually cause Diabetes, and there was a study that looked at dementia patients in a nursing home who were taking statins. When they took them off the statins-- the dementia regressed. AND, when they put them back on, the dementia came back. Yet your doctor will say, the side effects are, “minor muscle aches”. Terrible lie. Also, bone-building drugs: (Forteo) - I looked up the side effects and one is, “bone cancer”! I am not making this up. No doctor tells patients that -but they should, —Informed Consent!

1 Like
3

I agree, unequivocally. :dizzy: