By Catherine Paley-Vincent, Associate lawyer and Nathalie Boudet-Gizardin, Lawyer counsel.
Article published with the kind permission of the Medical Editorial Director of La Revue du Praticien
Source "the review of the practitioner.fr_avril 2020_tome70_numero4"
Quality information is now required in order to allow the patient to understand and agree to the treatments offered to him, to be associated with the choices made by the team to which he confided. It is “informed consent”. It is up to the doctor to give all the necessary information during an individual interview, which he must take care to keep track of. Thus, he will be able to retrace the path taken and establish the reality of the information given to his patient. However, we must recognize how difficult it is to convey a traumatic message, to explain the incomprehensible, to "decode" a scientific language, to announce the irreversible. It is therefore imperative, insofar as in each questioning of a responsibility, the duty of information will be discussed, to have the concern to prove the content of the information given, in accordance with a demanding but protective deontology so much. of the doctor than of his patient. This article returns to the essential questions of information: why inform? Who proves what? How to inform and prove it?
Catherine Paley-Vincent
Partner
Recognized expert in health law, she intervenes in particular for the constitution and monitoring of structures between hospital and / or liberal health professionals, for the management of possible conflicts and their transactional, judicial or disciplinary consequences. The field of medical imaging is particularly familiar to him.
She advises pharmaceutical companies on medical devices, labeling and clinical trials.
She is regularly consulted on the application of ethics, in particular with regard to the regulation of professional orders of networks, advertising and the Internet used in the medical and veterinary world.
Nathalie Boudet-Gizardin
Counsel
She joined the firm the same year in the Civil and Health team of Catherine Paley-Vincent. She advises health professionals particularly in terms of:
Civil, disciplinary and criminal defense of health professionals, professional orders and medical and veterinary biology laboratories
Advice and assistance to health professionals to structure their activities, including within the framework of public / private cooperation, particularly in medical imaging
Support for healthcare professionals and innovative companies in the development of their e-health projects.
