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Re: CS on demand From: Paul Prior MD (pprior@earthlink.net) Sun Oct 24 22:55:44 1999 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Geffrey Klein, MD: "Re: CS on demand" Previous message: Peter Wein: "Re: Itching" In reply to: Carlos A. Roure MD: "Re: CS on demand" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez MD: "Re: CS on demand" On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 20:24:12 -0500, croure@ibm.net (Carlos A. Roure MD) wrote: >At Sun, 24 Oct 1999, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: >> >> If there IS a medical "indication," accepted by some practitioners/authorities/etc for a certain >>procedure, then the original premise, that of informed consent being >impossible for a procedure with no indication, is mooted. >> >>Joe P. >> >>Bob W., did I say that correctly? > >I do not intend to answer for Bob, however you got it fairly right. You >can get informed consent for a procedure with proper medical >indications. >It continues to be correct that a person (patient) can NOT give consent >for malpractice to be willfully practiced on him/her. Can not consent >to a surgery with no medical indications. The answer to cesarean >section on demand, that is a primary one, has nothing to do with the day >and hour of it, nor millenium or not, but has to do with medical >practice, physician responsibility where you can not cut people up >simply because they want. They can cut themselves up if they desire, >but you as a physician can not. How do you explain plastic surgery then? Perhaps a woman does not want vaginal laxity, risk to the baby, the chance of urinary or fecal incontinence or even the pain of childbirth...although I find none of those reasons in my mind outweigh the risks of c/s -I- am not the one taking the risks and for a given woman I do not see why she would have just as much right (if not more) to have a c/s on demand as she would to have her breasts enlarged. -- Paul Prior MD "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants to make us happy" Ashland, KY USA -Benjamin Franklin Using Spamkiller so spam away... Next message: Geffrey Klein, MD: "Re: CS on demand" Previous message: Peter Wein: "Re: Itching" In reply to: Carlos A. Roure MD: "Re: CS on demand" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez MD: "Re: CS on demand"

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