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Can a drunk patient give informed consent for medical treatment?
 
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Regional Hospital, Kielce, Poland
 
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Clinical Department of General Oncology and Endocrinology Surgery, Provincial Polyclinic Hospital, Kielce, Poland
 
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Department of Surgery and Surgical Nursing with the Scientific Research Laboratory, Institute of Medical Sciences, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
 
 
Submission date: 2018-04-15
 
 
Final revision date: 2018-06-13
 
 
Acceptance date: 2018-06-27
 
 
Publication date: 2019-09-30
 
 
Medical Studies 2019;35(3):243-245
 
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When medical intervention is necessary, a physician faces a serious dilemma: can he/she perform medical intervention despite the lack of informed consent, or should he/she withdraw from such an intervention? The question is even more difficult when a patient under the influence of alcohol urgently requires a medical intervention. In such cases the possibility to gain informed consent is even more problematic, and such situations are not so rare. In such situations, a doctor must often decide whether to undertake medical interventions despite the lack of informed consent of a patient, if it is justified by patient’s state of health, or to discontinue intervention, exposing him/herself to possible legal liability for such an omission.
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