By: Sarah Isaac Darrel Peterson (Living with Common Sense on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 3:03pm)
Informed consent is the process by which a fully informed patient can participate in choices about her/his health care. It originates from the legal and ethical right the patient has to direct what happens to her/his body and from the ethical duty of the physician to involve the patient in her/his health care. You must give your voluntary, informed consent for treatment and for most medical tests and procedures. The legal term for failing to obtain informed consent before performing a test or procedure on a patient is called battery (a form of assault).
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Informed consent is based on the moral and legal premise of patient autonomy:
You as the patient have the right to make decisions about your own health and medical conditions.
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The concept of Informed Consent has many different definitions and each one worded a bit different than the last. But the common thread though out them all are the following:
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1. Informing the patient of the nature of the treatment.
2. Informing the patient of possible alternatives to that treatment.
3. Informing the patient of potential risks and benefits of that treatment including a clear understanding of facts, implications, and future consequences of an action to be taken.
4. Consent must be voluntary.
5. That the patient should have an opportunity to ask questions to elicit a better understanding of the treatment or procedure, so that he or she can make an informed decision to proceed or to refuse a particular course of medical intervention.
6. That informed consent is based on the moral and legal premise of patient autonomy: You as the patient have the right to make decisions about your own health and medical conditions.
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~How many times have parents been bullied or scared into making a decision for their families. Apply this to vaccines, fluoride, and toxins in our food and products. These things have been forced on us without our consent. Lets break this down and look at vaccines for an example, following the 6 points above that are considered to make up the concept of "Informed Consent".
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VACCINES:
1. We are NOT informed of the nature of this treatment.
We are TOLD we must vaccinate. Vaccinate because the diseases are scary, for the greater good of the community, because its the law, because our doc will refuse to see us if we don't and that we must vaccinate so our children can attend school.
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2. We are NOT informed of alternatives to treatment.
Alternatives such as eating healthy, building our immune system, taking supplements like vitamin. D, and introducing natural immunity.
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3. We are NOT informed of the risks of the vaccines.
We aren't told about the seriousness of vaccine reactions. We are not educated about the list of neurotoxic ingredients such as ALUMINUM, MERCURY, and FORMALDEHYDE, to name only a few, in the vaccines they are injecting into our bodies. Many healthcare professionals are not even aware of them themselves. We aren't educated about the VAERS database (www.vaers.org) listing all those that have been injured and the MILLIONS of dollars given to families for vaccine injury. (Take note only 1-10% of vaccine reactions are even reported...seehttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1995527181/one-more-girl-documentary andhttp://www.vaccineinjury.info/hepatitis-b.html) . We are NOT given facts, implications, and future consequences of the action of vaccinating. We are just told to TRUST our Doctors. Doctors that are not even aware of the ingredients in the vaccines that the U.S. has admitted are neurotoxins.
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4. Our consent IS NOT VOLUNTARY!
We are bullied, threatened, and scared into making a decision that our motherly instincts tell us is wrong. We are told our doc won't provide care for us if we don't' vaccinate, that our schools won't educate our kids if we don't vaccinate, and that we are harming those around us, that we love, if we don't vaccinate. There have even been situations where courts have demanded children be vaccinated, child abuse charges brought against families for not vaxing and the threat of children being taken from the home unless families vaccinate.
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5. We are NOT GIVEN the chance to ask questions and better understand the process of vaccinating.
NO! Instead we are then ridiculed for "questioning" our docs, people of knowledge and authority. We are belittled by them and get called extremists, selfish, difficult parents that are obviously NOT educated and are involved in conspiracy theories against the government. They do not give us the feeling that we have a choice. In fact it is IMPLIED that we WILL vaccinate because that is just what you do and because a person in a white lab coat who is focused on sick care, not health care...tells us to. The same docs that are benefiting financially from us getting the vaccines.
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6. We are NOT GIVEN patient autonomy.
We are not given the right to look at the information presented to us by the medical field, the right to a second opinion, the right to take as much time as needed to sufficiently educate ourselves by seeking out MANY different sources of knowledge before making an important decision about OUR OWN health.
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As you can see above with the example of vaccines, we are a far cry from truly having INFORMED CONSENT. Although, something we DO have control over is our voice and how we use it. . We are responsible for speaking up, asking questions, demand time to educate ourselves BEFORE being asked to make a decision about our and our families health. We are responsible for keeping our family safe. That is our job. Kids don't know to ask for the ingredients in a vaccines and how to research each and every ingredient for its possible side effects that can DAMAGE and DESTROY their life. Its like playing Russian roulette with their life and they have no say in it.
If I was taking a medication and left the bottle open and accessible to my child and my child ate that medications and died, I would be held responsible for neglect/abuse of my child let alone their death. If my child got a vaccine injected into their body, and an ingredient in that vaccine was a neurotoxin that I was not aware of, and that child died.... I am not held accountable for their death. It would not be neglect or abuse. I would be called a responsible, loving parent that was trying to do what was best for her child. NO! THIS IS WRONG! THIS IS NEGLECT AND ABUSE! You, as a parent were neglectful. You did not watch out for the safety of your child and do your homework and research the substances that were being injected into your child. It is YOUR responsibility. We can no longer TRUST or BLAME the doctors for this. It is OUR responsibility to care for OUR family. PERIOD! WAKE UP and educate yourselves!
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Definitions of Informed Consent:
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Informed consent is a legal procedure to ensure that a patient or client knows all of the risks and costs involved in a treatment. The elements of informed consents include informing the client of the nature of the treatment, possible alternative treatments, and the potential risks and benefits of the treatment.
In order for informed consent to be considered valid, the client must be competent and the consent should be given voluntarily.
Informed consent is a phrase often used in law to indicate that the consent a person gives meets certain minimum standards. As a literal matter, in the absence of fraud, it is redundant. An informed consent can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications, and future consequences of an action. In order to give informed consent, the individual concerned must have adequate reasoning faculties and be in possession of all relevant facts at the time consent is given. Impairments to reasoning and judgment which may make it impossible for someone to give informed consent include such factors as basic intellectual or emotional immaturity, high levels of stress such as PTSD or as severe mental retardation, severe mental illness, intoxication, severe sleep deprivation, Alzheimer's disease, or being in a coma.
Informed Consent
Informed consent is more than simply getting a patient to sign a written consent form. It is a process of communication between a patient and physician that results in the patient's authorization or agreement to undergo a specific medical intervention.
In the communications process, you, as the physician providing or performing the treatment and/or procedure (not a delegated representative), should disclose and discuss with your patient:
The patient's diagnosis, if known;
The nature and purpose of a proposed treatment or procedure;
The risks and benefits of a proposed treatment or procedure;
Alternatives (regardless of their cost or the extent to which the treatment options are covered by health insurance);
The risks and benefits of the alternative treatment or procedure; and
The risks and benefits of not receiving or undergoing a treatment or procedure.
In turn, your patient should have an opportunity to ask questions to elicit a better understanding of the treatment or procedure, so that he or she can make an informed decision to proceed or to refuse a particular course of medical intervention.
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Informed consent is the process by which a fully informed patient can participate in choices about her health care. It originates from the legal and ethical right the patient has to direct what happens to her body and from the ethical duty of the physician to involve the patient in her health care.
What Is Informed Consent?
Doctors will give you information about a particular treatment or test in order for you to decide whether or not you wish to undergo such treatment or test. This process of understanding the risks and benefits of treatment is known as informed consent. It is based on the moral and legal premise of patient autonomy: You as the patient have the right to make decisions about your own health and medical conditions.
•You must give your voluntary, informed consent for treatment and for most medical tests and procedures. The legal term for failing to obtain informed consent before performing a test or procedure on a patient is called battery (a form of assault).
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