CHAPTER MED 18 (title)
INFORMED CONSENT
SECTION 2. Med 18.02 (3) is amended to read:
Med 18.02 (3) “ Viable” as used in s. 448.30, Stats., to modify the term “medical modes of treatment” means modes of treatment “Modes of treatment” means treatment, including diagnostic procedures, generally considered by the medical profession to be within the scope of current, acceptable standards of care.
SECTION 3. Med 18.03 is repealed and recreated to read:
Med 18.03 (title) Informed consent. Any physician who treats a patient shall inform the patient about the availability of reasonable alternate medical modes of treatment and about the benefits and risks of these treatments. The reasonable physician standard is the standard for informing a patient. The reasonable physician standard requires disclosure only of information that a reasonable physician in the same or a similar medical specialty would know and disclose under the circumstances.
SECTION 4. Med 18.04 (3) and (5) are amended to read:
Med 18.04 (3) A physician is not required to communicate any mode of treatment which is not viable a reasonable alternate mode of treatment or which is experimental.
Med 18.04 (5) A physician may simplify or omit communication of viable reasonable alternate modes of treatment if the communication would unduly confuse or frighten a patient or if a patient refuses to receive the communication.
SECTION 5. Med 18.04 (6) is created to read:
Med 18.04 (6) A physician is not required to communicate information about alternate medical modes of treatment for any condition the physician has not included in his or her diagnosis at the time the physician informs the patient.
SECTION 6. Med 18.05 is amended to read:
Med 18.05 Recordkeeping. A physician shall indicate on a patient's medical record he or she has communicated to the patient reasonable alternate viable modes of treatment.
Section 7. Effective Date. The rules adopted in this order shall take effect on the first day of the month following publication in the Wisconsin Administrative Register, pursuant to s. 227.22 (2) (intro.), Stats. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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