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Flaws in Revising Medical Consent Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2021

Angela R. Holder*
Affiliation:
Yale University School of Medicine Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, Connecticut
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Abstract

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Type
Correspondence
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1983

References

Committee on Policy for DNR Decisions, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Report on Do Not Resuscitate Decisions, Connecticut Medicine 47(8): 477–83 (August 1983).Google Scholar
See, e.g., Emory University v. Porubiansky, 282 S.E.2d 903 (Ga. 1981); Olson v. Molzen, 558 S.W.2d 429 (Tenn. 1977).Google Scholar
Protection of Human Subjects, 45 C.F.R. §46.116 (1981). “No informed consent, whether oral or written, may include any exculpatory language through which the subject or the representative is made to waive or appear to waive any of the subject's legal rights, or releases or appears to release the investigator, the sponsor, the institution or its agents from liability for negligence.”Google Scholar
Levine, R. J., Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research (Urban & Schwarzenberg, Baltimore, Md.) (1981) at 101.Google Scholar