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Sep 8, 2009 | Posted by: Hedonist

Medical Informed Consent Question

Full story: www.ama-assn.org

All 50 states have medical informed consent laws of some for or another. In Georgia, where I live, the code (31-9-6.1) requires “ disclosure of certain information to persons undergoing surgical procedures.” In particular, this code requires disclosure of “The practical alternatives to such proposed surgical or diagnostic procedure which are generally recognized and accepted by reasonably prudent physicians." " Informed consent is legally treated as a matter of negligence on the part of the physician to disclose necessary information to patients. Also, non-negligent outcomes which can be shown to be directly causal from negligent decisions fall under this umbrella. However, I have never heard of any legal case actually being fought in the U.S. which focuses solely on the providing physicians failure to fully inform a patient. Does anybody know of any legal cases? Does anybody have any personal stories of negligence as it relates to informed consent that they could share?

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“Thank god I'm an atheist”

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I became personally aware of this law back in 2003 after I suffered a disabling heart attack.

In my case, I had already had 3 heart attacks, undergone 3 angioplasties with cardiac cauterization and stent placements. My diagnosis was Cardiac Artery Disease (ICD 420.00) with a depressed left ventricle ejection fraction of about 40%. According to the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, the standard of care for my diagnosis is coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.

The cardiologist who was treating me at the time did not inform me of my diagnosis or the standard treatment options. Instead, at his behest, I received a 4th angioplasty with cardiac cauterization and stent placements.

About 2 months later I had a 4th heart attack in which my left ventricle atrophied and my ejection fraction dropped to 25%, where it remains to this date.

After my recovery from the bypass surgery, I learned of my diagnosis and standard of care guidelines.

I then spent 3 years trying to find a lawyer who would argue my case, but could not find a single one. The consistent reply was that there was no overt negligence (something left inside of me) and therefore I had no case. In the end, the statute of limitations closed on my efforts.
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Bradenton, FL

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Sep 18, 2009
 
the zionist media czars like MORT ZUCKERMAN , RUPERT MURDOCH , Rabbi Limbaugh and ANN COULTER deny us the right to informed consent on the blank checks given to ISRAEL and the kosher nostra,,,,,,,,, taxpayers are forced to pay for rabbis eliahu ben haim , SAUL KASSIN , Edmund Nahum , mordecai fish , Glen Drek , Sean Hannity and BILL O'REALLY ............ israel has universal health care ...... paid for by the USA and belligerent military ... also paid for by US taxpayers because AIPAC bribed Congress and the judeciary............ ISRAEL also has plaqued the US with illicit drug traffic , money laundering , contract killings of JFK and RFK and other AMERICANS who oppose judeo - fascism , raphanism and spechlerism .......... informed consent requires INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM ..... not the imbedded reporters controled by the kosher nostra and Seltzer Mombach .
Dan Walter

West River, MD

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Sep 20, 2009
 
Google "Adventures in Cardiology" it is all about lack of informed consent.

http://adventuresincardiology.com/
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