{"id":391,"date":"2008-06-09T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2008\/06\/09\/anne-caley-patient-consent\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T11:09:13","slug":"anne-caley-patient-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2008\/06\/09\/anne-caley-patient-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Caley: Patient consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">The first press event I\u00a0attended as a BMJ Clegg Scholar was the\u00a0launch of the <a title=\"patients and doctors making decisions together\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gmc-uk.org\/news\/index.asp#ConsentGuidance\">General Medical Council&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a>new guidance for doctors \u2018Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together,\u2019 at\u00a0the <a title=\"National Theatre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/\">National Theatre<\/a>, London, so\u00a0it was\u00a0no surprise\u00a0that a short play (commissioned by the GMC) was performed to reflect the situations influencing the need for new guidance.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The aptly named \u2018Forecast:Fog\u2019 presented the dilemma doctors, patients and carers face with regards to gaining consent from patients who have a fluctuating cognitive state.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The main character was an Alzheimer\u2019s patient who also required a cholecystectomy. The play outlined his journey from primary care to admission as in-patient (via A&amp;E) and highlighted the difficulties experienced in getting consent from the patient (as well as the frustrations experienced by the patient, carer and the doctors themselves).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It was a\u00a0very moving and unfortunately\u00a0accurate portrayal of events which I had witnessed on my recent clinical placements. The scenes identifying the appalling way in which patients can be dismissed and\/or ignored or spoken to SLOWLY and LOUDLY were cringingly familiar.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">What was of particular interest, however, was\u00a0feedback from\u00a0the audience. As well as\u00a0doctors, members of the health press, consisted of Alzheimer sufferers and their carers there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The performance concluded with a consultant being \u2018volunteered\u2019 to show how he felt a consultation should be carried out.\u00a0\u00a0 He handled the pressure fantastically well, especially when, during a particularly \u2018sensitive\u2019 moment in the dialogue \u2013 his bleep went off.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Have your say on the blog. Alternatively read the BMJ editorial on the new guidance:<br \/>\n<a title=\"nt\u2014decision or assumption?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/extract\/336\/7656\/1259\">Patient consent\u2014decision or assumption<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first press event I\u00a0attended as a BMJ Clegg Scholar was the\u00a0launch of the General Medical Council&#8217;s\u00a0new guidance for doctors \u2018Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together,\u2019 at\u00a0the National Theatre, London, so\u00a0it was\u00a0no surprise\u00a0that a short play (commissioned by the GMC) was performed to reflect the situations influencing the need for new guidance.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2008\/06\/09\/anne-caley-patient-consent\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}