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The Costs Of Having (Too) Many Choices: Reshaping The Doctrine Of Informed Consent, Maytal Gilboa, Omer Y. Pelled
The Costs Of Having (Too) Many Choices: Reshaping The Doctrine Of Informed Consent, Maytal Gilboa, Omer Y. Pelled
Brooklyn Law Review
This article suggests a reshaping of the doctrine of informed consent to accommodate the potential costs of choices vis-à-vis patients’ well-being. Applying insights from psychology and behavioral economics, it makes four main claims. First, the current doctrine imposes a broad duty of disclosure on physicians toward their patients, based on the premise that patients want and need to know all the alternative treatments for their ailment. We argue that this premise is misguided. The process of choice making is not cost free. Since patients incur costs when they must choose a treatment from too many alternatives, the current duty should …