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Skin Diseases And Informed Consent
Zeki PALALI*
* Prof.Dr., Hayat Hastanesi, BURSA
Informed consent points out a very important issue of "human rights" in medicine. Information means the detailed explanation of the disease to the patient by the doctor. Consent is the approval by the informed patient with his own will for the procedures associated with his disease. All the procedures administered without an informed consent are illegal leading to responsibility.In this review, the content, timing, application and dimension of the informed consent, the situations where the contsent is assumed as well as its legal aspects are presented with clinical examples.Keywords: Informed consent, Skin diseaseTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics-Hukuku-Tarihi 2002, 10:104-107
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