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Birth: Why Do Not We Just Tell the Truth?
1MB BS FRANZCOG LLB(Hons) LLM, Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician at The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne and St Vincents Private Hospital, Melbourne.
Abstract:
Information regarding childbirth is currently inadequate to allow truly informed decisions regarding mode of delivery. The concept of patient autonomy is complex. How doctors transmit information to allow for patient self-determination should be seen within the different models of patient-doctor relationship. There are a number of specific dilemmas for obstetricians in providing balanced information to women. The profession needs to establish some specific standards of information for women preparing for childbirth. Legal decisions in childbirth-related medical litigation have focused on the concept of self-determination but are doctors enabling true informed consent when only information regarding the medical interventions is given and not information regarding the entire process of childbirth?
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