Patient was clear violation of his professional duty

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The physician's failure to obtain consent from the patient was a clear violation of his professional duty. Informed consent is a fundamental principle of medical ethics that requires physicians to obtain a patient's consent before performing any procedure, regardless of whether the procedure is considered to be routine or relatively simple. Informed consent requires that the physician explain the risks and benefits of the proposed procedure to the patient in a way that the patient can understand, and that the patient then give their voluntary and informed consent to the procedure. In this case, the physician failed to obtain consent from the patient for the femoral arteriogram he performed, and as a result, the patient's family filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against him.

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