Patient's Autonomy is one of the 4 basic principles of medical ethics, which gives the right of accepting or refusing any kind of treatment or procedure on his body to only to the patient. Many times, surgeons face some unexpected finding during surgery and have to take some major per-operative decision . For example, a surgeon performing hemicolectomy for carcinoma colon finds that the tumor has involved the kidney also and so, he needs a consent for an additional procedure (nephrectomy) of the patient.
Now, Q.1: Does our law considers a patient under general anesthesia as an unfit patient, and gives full right to give a consent for any additional per-operative procedure to his relatives? (like as in the common emergency situations) Q.2: If not, will the following procedure be good enough for both the patient and the doctor? " Before any elective surgery, patient (in the…
