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Daniel S. Strouse, SM, JD
Arizona State University College of Law Tempe

JAMA. 1996;275(15):1156-1157.

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To the Editor.

—Readers of the article by Drs Laine and Davidoff¹ may be misled as to the role of law in the development of patient-centered medicine. The article both misstates the law of informed consent and underrecognizes the importance of the doctrine.

First, Laine and Davidoff write as though a "patient-oriented" standard for physician information sharing is a uniform legal norm. Under this standard, patients are entitled to such information as would be "material" to a "reasonable" patient in connection with his or her medical decision-making needs. But informed consent is a state law doctrine and is the rule in only about half the states. The other states follow a "physician-based" standard, which measures the physician's duty to disclose by the performance of a "reasonable medical practitioner" similarly situated.² The article by Laine and Davidoff fails to mention the continuing prevalence of this physician-based standard and discusses . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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