Surgical consent: the world's largest Chinese Whisper? A review of current surgical consent practices

As the law around surgical consent continues to evolve, surgeons and those in training risk being caught red-faced and defenceless. Despite repeated concerns regarding surgical consent being raised by the General Medical Council of the UK, how much is changing on the National Health Service shop flo...

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Main Author: Loughran, Dafydd (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2015
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 206-210
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