Although many people may think that signing a consent form is crazy, but there are many different think that people may hear about signing consent forms such as; you have to pay for the form, there are a lot of questions on the form, and they are not real at all. The real question we should all ask ourselves is that. Should informed consent be limited in certain situation? I’m about to give you some good reasons why we should sign consent forms at the doctor’s office and the hospital.
For example, while reading the book about Henrietta Lacks gave me a different outlook on what really goes on in the doctor’s office and the hospital, …show more content…
Another quote that I thought that Howard Brody wrote about in his article was: Some positive side-effects of this might be more focus on good diagnostic and therapeutic decision making on the physician’s part, since it will be understood that the patient will be made aware of what the physician’s reasoning process has been like, and better documentation of management decisions in the patient record (Brody middle of par 18).
The speed of medical research together with drug companies race to create products has overtaken the system designed to keep people safe (Robert Davis par 2).
While reading this quote from “U.S.: Human Medical Test Lack Oversight (Robert Davis)”, I feel that we should get a better understanding of the medical, and consent forms because if we don’t read and understand something then we will signing something for someone to take without us