C is for Consent
The Wall Street Journal report "The Informed Patient" starts with this unsurprising info:
"Informed consent may be the biggest misnomer in medicine: Studies show that most patients don't read the forms they sign before undergoing surgery or medical treatment. More than half of those who do read the forms don't understand them, and only a quarter of forms include all of the data patients need to make an informed decision."
"Informed consent may be the biggest misnomer in medicine: Studies show that most patients don't read the forms they sign before undergoing surgery or medical treatment. More than half of those who do read the forms don't understand them, and only a quarter of forms include all of the data patients need to make an informed decision."
Labels: consumer, gobbledygook, language, medical, plain language, professional communication
posted by Stephens at
10:34 AM
1 Comments:
I took my 19 year old to the emergency room recently for the first time in recent memory. (He's fine now.) hasn't ever filled them out before. He kept reading me ridiculous little snippets from the fine print, and I got to see them through the eyes of someone who hadn't filled them out a thousand times before.
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