CONSENTIMIENTO INFORMADO, UNA VISIÓN PANORÁMICA

Abstract

Informed consent is a key, complex and strongly debated, issue in medical liability. In contrast to many other countries, in the Chilean case we lack a statute that requires health professionals to provide material information to patients in order to allow them to fully exercises their autonomy. We also lack a significant corpus of judicial decisions in this regard, and, finally, Chilean scholars have not devoted their best efforts to develop the topic. The aim of this work is to provide a synoptic view of informed consent, its justification and some of the most debated issues about it.