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Informed Consent The doctrine of Informed consent It is important to distinguish between informed consent as a doctrine and informed consent as a term used imprecisely to mean a valid consent, one where the "broad nature" (Chatterton v. Gerson [1981]) of the treatment proposed has been explained to the patient. In the context of this essay, informed consent refers to the doctrine which underlines the amount of information that a patient should be given in relation to the risks of treatment over and above those encapsulated with the "broad nature" requirement of the inevitable and inherent risks posed by the proposed treatment. Ethically, the issue under consideration is the right to self-determination and the mantra from all proponents of informed consent, as described in Largey v. Rotham, is that a patient cannot validly consent to the risks associated with treatment unless he has been told of them in advance. This posses a...

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