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nbme17/Block 1/Question#2 (reveal difficulty score)
A 68-year-old man is asked to give informed ...
Information, competence, voluntariness ๐Ÿ” / ๐Ÿ“บ / ๐ŸŒณ / ๐Ÿ“–
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The patient is clearly showing that he understands the procedure (information) and that he's willing to go through with the procedure (voluntariness).

The 2nd choice should be capacity because competence is the legally declared one (from a court). Honestly bad ? because of this.

But, family agreement (which technically wasn't achieved yet) and cost are not necessary factors for informed consent.

According to FA '19 p. 264, you need: disclosure, understanding, capacity, and voluntariness.

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j44n  tf are you downvoting this for? +5
klerick  Competence was achieved by the doctor saying "he (doctor) has done more than 100 of these procedures" - basically saying that he has proper knowledge, experience and ability to perform that surgery himself and not being a first year resident who never done anything... lol +



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