MS>     Doing procedures of any kind on a patient without informed consent
 MS> invites successful lawsuits, since negligence is not needed for the
 MS> patient to recover if anything goes wrong (as otherwise would be)!
While this is true, and virtually *every* malpractice suit has as a
component the 'lack of informed consent', few are ever decided on those
grounds alone.  For example, one of our internet buddies (MD, JD) did a
Westlaw search last year and found there has never been a successful
'informed consent' anesthesia lawsuit.
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