39-4506 SUFFICIENCY OF CONSENT. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 45

THE MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT

39-4506. Sufficiency of consent. Consent, or refusal to consent, for the furnishing of hospital, medical, dental or surgical care, treatment or procedures shall be valid in all respects if the person giving or refusing the consent is sufficiently aware of pertinent facts respecting the need for, the nature of, and the significant risks ordinarily attendant upon, such a patient receiving such care, as to permit the giving or withholding of such consent to be a reasonably informed decision. Any such consent shall be deemed valid and so informed if the physician or dentist to whom it is given or by whom it is secured has made such disclosures and given such advice respecting pertinent facts and considerations as would ordinarily be made and given under the same or similar circumstances, by a like physician or dentist of good standing practicing in the same community. As used in this section, the term "in the same community" refers to that geographic area ordinarily served by the licensed general hospital at or nearest to which such consent is given.