CONCERNED daughter’s letter, “Duty to advise all patients prior to medical procedures” (The Star, June 19), highlighted the importance of informed consent.
Medical investigations and procedures in general can be divided into invasive and non-invasive categories. Invasive procedures have an inherent complication rate – and even mortality rate – wherever it is done and whoever does it. For example, a liver biopsy has a complication rate of five in 1,000 and a death rate of five in 10,000.
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