In fact, respect for patient autonomy is a way of being benevolent to the patient. A. A person has the moral obligation to use available procedures that offer a reasonable expectation of improving or maintaining health without creating serious burdens on themselves or significant others. Major financial expenditure C. Health care professionals are not obligated to provide medically futile treatment, even when a patient or surrogate insists on it.
Informed consent is a personal exchange between physician and patient.
Signed formed is supposed to be the record of this interaction. Every competent adult has the right to decide freely about all matters relating to that individual's own health and about any treatment or procedure proposed for the sake of health 2. Health and health care is a basic good of the individual and something for which a competent adult is primarily responsible. Any failure from the physician, deliberate or negligent, to achieve informed consent is morally unacceptable and represents a fundamental failure of the physician's responsibilities to the patient. In the case of incompetent patients, decisions should be made by the individual's legitimate guardian, acting for the patient's benefit and, as far as possible, in accordance with the patient's known and reasonable wishes.