For a doctor appointment tomorrow, I was requested to update my information and sign a care consent online. The first item of the consent said, "I understand that a patient's care is directed by his/her attending physician(s) and I consent to any hospital services that are appropriate for my care and as ordered by my physician(s)."
This physician seems pretty good, but what if she thinks vaccines, biologicals or gene therapy are appropriate for my care? She did ask me ONCE if I wanted the sars-cov-2 vaccination, pneumococcal vaccine, herpes zoster (shingles) vaccine and tetanus vaccine. She's also offered a mammogram and dxa scan, which I declined. If she had asked again, I would have found another practitioner.
I have serious trust issues with the (lack of) healthcare field. I will not sign this. The provider (hospital system) has sent it to me about 4 times in the last week.
This has been discussed here before, although it’s probably been more than a year since I last saw this. The advice, then and now, is never sign anything on an iPad. Always insist on paper copies.
Thank you for the heads-up. I will ask for a paper copy of something I signed electronically just last week.