Abstract
New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. $49.95.0-19-825578-0 This book about English medical law presupposes some knowledge of legal concepts and terminology and of British health care, and therefore it cannot be recommended unreservedly to an American medical audience. The rule applies as much to patient consent as to any other area: how much to disclose is measured in terms of what other reasonable practitioners would have disclosed. To accomplish this, he recommends reinterpreting the Bolam rule so that courts would be given the authority to determine medical standards in malpractice cases, using professional custom only as inconclusive evidence. [...]he would ask, as his standard for the disclosure of medical information, whether the physician disclosed all the information that a particular patient would have wanted to know in order to make a decision.