C&C

Once more I find myself concerned with Capacity and Consent.

Capacity and Consent are two linked words that govern how I can treat patients and it always needs to be at the forefront of my mind.

Capacity Is the ability for someone to understand what I am telling them and to be able to make a decision based on being able to understand the risks of choices that they make now.

Consent is my patient allowing me to do things to them, be that blood pressure measurements, giving them medicine or...