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Re: CS on demandFrom: DoctorJoe@aol.comSun Oct 24 15:48:13 1999
In a message dated 10/24/99 11:42:48 AM, croure@ibm.net writes: << You can not contract nor consent to have your right (or left) hand cut off (with no indication)by a physician even if you split prize money. A patient can "consent" to medical alternatives but cannot "consent" to simply be cut. This has nothing to do with apples or oranges. You are NOT presenting a primary elective cesarean on demand as an alternative or indication, so there is nothing to conset. >> Alright, then let's split hairs a little. As we've discussed on this list previously, there IS medical sentiment for an informed decision for elective c/s at term, simply to keep the child from the unforeseen hazards of labor. So whether it's near midnight, 12/31/99, or Sunday afternoon before the football gam is irrelevant. This is not particularly the same as having one's hand cut off. Joe P. On the other hand, what about voluntarily scarring one's body just for "looks"? IS THAT something that you cannot contract for with a practitioner? Of course it is. There are probably thousands (if not millions) of people in the world each day who puncture their skin and insert paint, to "beautify", or poke holes in their extremities and fleshy appendages and insert pieces of metal, and on and on, and there is absolutely no medical "indication" for that, only patient desire/vanity/ whatEVER.
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