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Boston University School of Law

2015

Informed consent

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Why Is There No Clear Doctrine Of Informed Consent For Lawyers?, Nancy J. Moore Oct 2015

Why Is There No Clear Doctrine Of Informed Consent For Lawyers?, Nancy J. Moore

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Written as a contribution to a symposium issue of the Toledo Law Review honoring retiring professor Susan Martyn, this article takes as its starting point an early article by Professor Martyn entitled “Informed Consent in the Practice of Law.” In that article, Professor Martyn decried the inability of clients to control the course of their representation and urged state legislatures to remedy this situation by enacting legislation creating an action in damages based upon a lawyer’s failure to obtain the client’s informed consent. Such an action would be similar to common law actions that courts had recently recognized by patients …


Informed Consent And The First Amendment, Wendy K. Mariner, George J. Annas Apr 2015

Informed Consent And The First Amendment, Wendy K. Mariner, George J. Annas

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For more than two decades, states have been adding to the things that physicians must say and do to obtain “informed consent” — and thereby testing the constitutional limits of states' power to regulate medical practice. In 1992, the Supreme Court upheld states' authority to require physicians to provide truthful information that might encourage a woman to reconsider her decision to have an abortion, finding that such a requirement did not place an “undue burden” on the woman.


Should Patient Responsibility For Costs Change The Doctor-Patient Relationship?, Christopher Robertson Jan 2015

Should Patient Responsibility For Costs Change The Doctor-Patient Relationship?, Christopher Robertson

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Copays, deductibles, coinsurance, and reference prices all now expose patients to increasingly larger shares of the costs of health care. Extant research on cost sharing has primarily focused on its impact on patients, their health care spending, and their health outcomes. Scholars have paid much less attention to the question of how patient exposure to health care costs may impact physicians and their relationships with their patients. This Essay is given on the occasion of a symposium motivated by two recent books by David Schenck, Larry Churchill, and Joseph Fanning that highlight the relational aspects of health care ethics. Accordingly, …