deal with, it's two pages long, it's a front and a back, and there's certain things that they stress that could be covered in a standard informed consent form. Even before I show you the things that I put together, I wanted to let you know that in dealing with the attorneys that I deal with on this issue, when you look at informed consent, there's two different things to look at and this is not well understood. Two different things; one, there are laws by the state that you live in and then there are rules by the Board of Examiners by the state that you practice. They are different and they are often not the same. For example, the state law may say that you must use informed consent and an oral informed consent is okay, but then the Boards Rules and Regs. may say you must use informed consent and it must be written, so there's a mismatch. There's a mismatch between what the state says and there's a mismatch between what the Board of Examiners of that state say. Consequently, these are things that you kind of have to deal and be kind of clear on. I think to be a devil's advocate, the absolute best thing to do is to do an oral and a written informed consent to go over with the patient, make sure they understand it, make sure that they don't have any questions, and once all of that is together, have them sign it and date it and put it into the file. On the cases that I'm asked to take a look at, I always ask the attorney to look at my informed consent and say, "Hey, if this was in your file, what would happen to the majority of your cases?" Easy. 90 plus percent simple would not be there. That's the goal. You want to inform the patient for the patient's well-being and, also, for the protection of the chiropractic. The other thing I'm realizing is if you did not use an informed consent and there are rules and regs either from the Board or the State that say you should then, often, the problem goes ... They go after the chiropractor simply for not using informed consent. consequently, that's why we're going to make a legal issue against you, essentially." Having said all of that, and just sharing with you the things that I've put in my informed consent, here it goes; I start off ... Again, lawyers will tell you that this could be more tied down legalities and legal terminology. My problem with a lot of that is I've had patients read some of the more legal versions of this and it scares them a little bit. Some I've had even refused to sign it, so what I've tried to do is soften it and still make it a very valuable document. The last thing, before I go over it, the last so many cases I've looked at, I have noticed a trend and the result is I have added a brand new section to my informed consent that I haven't seen in any other informed consent, and I look at a lot of them. I'm going to share with you what that brand new sections and when I'm done with all of this, again, I'm doing this for ChiroSecure today ... When I'm done, I will make mine available to Stu Hoffman, and then whatever he feels like doing, again, you guys can update it, change it, whatever, but I'm never stingy. Anybody that wants a copy of what I will share with you today, I'm more than happy to share. That all being said, every ... This is the way I start mine, "Dear patient, every type of health care is associated with some risk of a potential problem. This includes chiropractic health care. He want you to aware of potential problems associated with In other words, they might say, "Okay, everything you did was following the standard, but you didn't do informed consent and that is the standard and,
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