Seeking patients’ consent in anaesthesiology: consent in clinical practice

Abstract

“I wish my life and decisions to depend on myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men’s act of will. I wish to be a subject, not an object; to be moved by reasons, by conscious purposes which are my own, not by causes which affect me, as it were, from outside. I wish to be somebody, not nobody – a doer, deciding, not being decided for, self-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men”. Isaiah Berlin, 1969