Should the chiropractic profession embrace the doctrine of informed consent?

Shared Decision Making Through Informed Consent in Chiropractic Management of Low Back Pain

“…5 This benevolent image of clinicians may have been forever shattered by the atrocities committed in the Second World War, which later led to the publication of the Nuremberg Code. 6 This Code proposed 10 principles to guide human experimentation (ie, clinical research), the first of which stated that voluntary consent of the patient was absolutely essential; this view was reiterated and expanded in the Declaration of Helsinki and Belmont Report. 7 The principle of IC established in those landmark documents for research was gradually incorporated into general patient care.…”