Informed consent: Legalities, perspectives of physicians and patients, and practices in OECD/non-OECD countries

to the patient or, in other words, how informed the informed consent should be. We illus-trate the above concept with an example of the once conservative English medical approach that has now shifted to a collaborative American one. An eminent Scottish judgment ruled in 2017 was instrumental in enacting the same. Conclusively, we explore how illiterate or semi-literate, financially constrained patients are withdrawn and passive in medical decision-making. The process of obtaining informed consent from the above stratum of poverty-stricken fiscally restrained patients is known to be potentially cumbersome. In this context, we, nevertheless, propose to expand on the ways of obtaining informed consent contextual to the above patient qualities. (c) 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.