[Physician responsibility for patient education in relation to unconventional methods of treatment]

The fact is to go on record that, the greater the danger involved in the application of an unconventional method and the less familiar this method, the greater the physician's obligation to inform the patient of its nature and gravity. This obligation increases or decreases in indirect proportion to the amount of relevant information available in classical medicine on the method. It further increases with degree of certainty in current medical knowledge. It is however only possible for the patient to exercise his right of self-determination if he is also familiar with the physicians's obligation to inform.