Abstract

The article discusses the consequences of a failure to provide medical information, which is needed by the patient to decide whether to give or refuse to give consent for the performance of a medical procedure. There is a prevailing position in the judicial practice, including the Supreme Court judgments, that providing a patient with incomplete information does not always invalidate the medical consent, and consequently does not always implicate liability of a doctor or a hospital for all consequences of a procedure, including the inculpable ones.