Question 63 · LDEK · Informing about health status
A parent with 14-year-old daughter whose dental calculus has to be removed reports to the dentist. What is the scope of information duty that the dentist should fulfill?
- A. because the minor does not take decisions concerning treatment it is enough to inform her legal representative.
- B. the information should be passed both to the legal representative and the minor provided that the dentist assumes that the girl is able to comprehend the information.
- C. apart from the legal representative the dentist also informs the minor in the form needed for the diagnostic and therapeutic process to be properly carried out and also listens to her opinion.
- D. the dentist may inform neither the legal representative nor the minor because in cases of simple surgeries no consent for treatment is required.
- E. the dentist informs only the minor because her consent is enough for a small-scale surgery.
Hint
For a patient under 16, consider who receives full information and what the law requires regarding informing the child herself.
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