To bake good cookies, start with good cookie dough. To use a different metaphor, to build a brick wall, take a large collection of bricks—all the same size and in perfect shape—and line them up neatly ...

These consent forms were presented to patients by their physician ... Then, the use of verbal consent will be evaluated in three sample cases–COVID-19 research, rare disease research, and clinical ...

The commonest indications for open tracheostomy were upper airway obstruction followed by prolonged intubation, adjunct to head and neck surgery and lower airway protection. Most common complications ...

Senior doctors responsible for monitoring cancer care in England and Wales are concerned failings in NHS services are contributing to up to half of patients not getting the right treatment for ...

A gynaecologist who removed two patients' ovaries without consent at Guernsey's Princess Elizabeth Hospital has been deemed 'fit to practise' by a medical tribunal. Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri faced more ...

So why is the issue of consent still seen as complicated? Research has found that almost half of us are not clear on what it means or do not know what the act of consent means. Even those ...