Ummm I diagree with you and agree
It seems to me that you are the one with the closed mind. Randall Said there is an emergency exception, and you are 100 percent correct "to save the life of an individual consent is not needed". However, that is not the issue here. Consent is required absent a medical emergency. You see my friend the reason we have consent laws and the reason people get really touchy about these things are because of the governments rights to tell us what to do with our bodies. Maybe you haven't heard of the attrocities in **** germany or the medical procedures that were performed there. Mengele ring a bell. I doubt it my friend.
I am not taking up for Randall, I am taking up the protest sign to the ignorance of this board. Doctors are notorious for violating rights of patients and its the lawyers who assure that you have those rights by seeking redress when a Doctor over steps his boundries. After all, if you are so hell bent on the doctor being right, why are you here? If your wife had died you'd sue for wrongful death, so don't confuse yourself with predefined notions of the prejudice to what Randall is talking about when it comes to paperwork malfunction. That paperwork is a Standard of Care, the same Standard of Care that your argument is predicated upon.