A lengthy document I signed upon my arrival to the emergency room acted as a general consent to treatment—but it meant that I was given antibiotics I didn't need and that my insurance refused to cover.
Conservatives are fighting a comprehensive sex ed bill, as one GOP lawmaker said her constituents "don't want to be told" what consent means in sexual relationships.
When you go to the doctor's office because you have a cough, you don't need a note from a psychiatrist to get an inhaler. Proponents of the informed consent model say this is how transition services, such as hormone replacement therapy, should be provided too.