Let's talk:
*Patient Autonomy
*Informed Consent
*Informed Refusal
Are you familiar with these terms? You need to be!
✔Patient autonomy: The right of patients to make decisions about their medical care without their health care provider trying to influence the decision. Patient autonomy does allow for health care providers to educate the patient but does not allow the health care provider to make the decision for the patient.
✔Informed Consent: permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.
✔Informed refusal: is where a person has refused a recommended medical treatment based upon an understanding of the facts and implications of not following the treatment. Informed refusal is linked to the informed consent process, as a patient has a right to consent, but also may choose to refuse.
More info:
Here's a live done a couple years back: https://youtu.be/yXsEKt8PxwI
