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Applied Ethics · Chapter 9

The Disclosure Standard Bench

Consent did not grow from a principle. It was extracted from courts, one case at a time, and each case moved the line about what you must say out loud. Scrub the timeline, set the facts of the operation on your list this afternoon, and watch which standards would have obliged you to mention the risk — and which would have let you keep quiet.

1 · Where on the timeline are you standing?

2 · The risk you are deciding whether to mention
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How bad is it if it happens?
3 · The rest of the encounter
Load a real case
Materiality of this risk
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