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Informed Consent

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State

Informed consent — disclosure, comprehension, voluntariness, capacity — is what turns bodily intervention from assault into treatment: permission that actually knows what it permits.

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A signature gathered at midnight from a sedated patient has the form and none of the elements. The elements are the consent.