Marissa Chaet Brykman, JD, Virginia Streusand Goldman, PhD, Nandakumara Sarma, PhD, RPh, Hellen A. Oketch-Rabah, PhD, MSc, Deborah Biswas, JD, and Gabriel I. Giancaspro, PhD
Increase in dietary supplement use in the United States suggests a great need for clinicians to be aware of the range of their quality parameters.
AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(5):E382-389. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.382.
Physicians make patients aware of those interventions that they (the patients) may then refuse. In short, informed consent is less about patient decisions than it is about restraining physicians.
Some question whether plastic surgeons bear responsibility for promoting suspect norms of beauty, given that certain types of cosmetic enhancements reinforce common conceptions of normality that are harmful to society.