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reasonable physician standard

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reasonable physician standard
Reasonable practitioner standard Forensic medicine A standard of disclosure of information used in the wording of informed consent documents, based on customary practice or what a reasonable practitioner in the medical community would disclose under the same/similar circumstances. Cf Arato v Avedon, Nathanson v. Kline, 'Patient viewpoint' standard
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Hughes, (27) the standard of disclosure in clinical medicine has shifted from a reasonable physician standard (i.
Minimal risk and large-scale biobank and cohort research by Caulfield, Timothy; Weijer, Charles / Health Law Review
112) In practice, however, the two are likely to diverge, since a reasonable physician standard invites juries to impose their possibly unrealistic notions of what doctors should be able to accomplish, whereas a custom-based standard attempts to keep juries within the realistic bounds of actual medical practice.
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