Dept. of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, M.G.I.M.S., Sewagram, Wardha (M.S.)
*Reprint requests: Qtr. No. 07, MLK Colony, M.G.I.M.S., Sewagram, Wardha (M.S.).
Consent of the patient has an immense practical importance to the clinicians. Doctors may do nothing to or for a patient without valid consent. This principle is applicable not only to surgical operations but also to all forms of medical treatment and to diagnostic procedures that involve intentional interference with the person. Given the volume of papers, treatises, and books on the subject of informed consent, it will only be possible to broad brush most elements of the concept. We have put most of comments, examples and cases as to how it affects medical practitioners and patients.
