THE IMPORTANCE OF INFORMED CONSENT IN THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE: An Indonesian Perspective
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18196/jmh.v17i2.15481Keywords:
informed consent, autonomy and privacy.Abstract
FNowadays, law has entered into any part of human life, including the world of medical profession. The practice of medicine is impossible to be far away from the influence of law. One of the influences of the law in medical profession is the requirement of informed consent before the doctor takes any medical treatment. Informed consent which was in the past considered as an ethical obligation, it now has become a legal obligation. Informed consent is a technical term in medical profession used to call consent to treatment given by the patient after receiving adequate information from the doctor.References
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