Abstract
This article aims to analyze, from a legal perspective, the boundaries of the obligation imposed on health care providers to inform the patient. This requirement originated and was developed as an ethical issue. However, with the newly approved law regulating the rights and duties of patients, the obligation to inform can be viewed from prisms and principles that differ from those governing medical ethics. With this purpose, we will focus on the comparative experience, which will allow us to evaluate the responsibility of health care providers when this duty is breached. We will try to answer the following questions: Which medical information must be informed to the patient? When should the doctor inform the patient? In which form should this information be provided?.
Highlights
This article aims to analyze, from a legal perspective, the boundaries of the obligation imposed on health care providers to inform the patient
We will focus on the comparative experience, which will allow us to evaluate the responsibility of health care providers when this duty is breached
Es por ello que nos parece conveniente optar por la utilización de folletos informativos pero sólo como un necesario complemento de la irremplazable entrega verbal de la información, debiendo destacarse en dichos volantes aquellos datos que al facultativo le interesen que el paciente tenga en cuenta al momento de tomar una decisión
Summary
This article aims to analyze, from a legal perspective, the boundaries of the obligation imposed on health care providers to inform the patient This requirement originated and was developed as an ethical issue. With the newly approved law regulating the rights and duties of patients, the obligation to inform can be viewed from prisms and principles that differ from those governing medical ethics With this purpose, we will focus on the comparative experience, which will allow us to evaluate the responsibility of health care providers when this duty is breached. En la actualidad no hay duda que las relaciones entre médico y paciente están regidas por el principio que señala que no se puede realizar una intervención quirúrgica o aplicar un tratamiento riesgoso o doloroso sin el consentimiento ilustrado y libre del interesado, salvo que la autorización no pueda ser obtenida razonablemente, o que la operación se imponga como una necesidad médica[1]. De esta manera y como aproximación general a los deberes que tendría el facultativo relativos a la entrega de información, podemos precisar que éstos vienen a conformar los ejes centrales de una moderna forma de entender el ejercicio de la actividad médica, cambio de paradigma que para muchos vendría a compensar el tradicional y evidente desequilibrio que se producía entre el conocimiento del galeno y la ignorancia de su paciente
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