Blogging Revision
Ok, so I'm not supposed to be blogging because I'm supposed to be revising but I had a wonderful thought - what if I combined the two?
What better way to revise ethics and consent than to discuss it. It's a grey area without a yes or no answer. It is more a matter of common sense and opinion so I'm asking for your opinions on the following scenarios:
1) You are the SHO on an upper GI surgery firm, you are told to explain a diagnosis of gastric cancer and start to consent a schizophrenic patient for surgery.
2) You are a new GP partner in a GP surgery seeing a woman who is going in for a elective operation, and she doesn't want the people in the hospital to know about her Hep C status... it turns out that she thinks if the hospital knows about her Hep C status, her social worker would find out and not let her to see her daughter.
3) A husband slept with prostitute in Thailand on business trip. Wife is unaware but attends GP with sore throat & demands to know what’s wrong with husband & wants same treatment.
So, how might you approach the above situations, go on, leave a comment and help with my revision.
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