2025 Code of Georgia
Title 31 - Health (Chs. 1 — 54)
Chapter 9 - Consent for Surgical or Medical Treatment (§§ 31-9-1 — 31-9-7)

Annotations

Research References & Practice Aids

Adult’s reliance on prayer or religious nonmedical means of treatment of dependent, § 15-11-107.

Professional Services, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Community Health, Healthcare Facility Regulation, Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Centers, Rule 111-8-4-.09.

Informed Consent, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Georgia Composite Medical Board, Rule 360-14-.01 et seq.

For article, “Informed Consent: New Georgia Guidelines,” discussing law of medical consent in Georgia, in light of Young v. Yarn, 136 Ga. App. 737, 222 S. E.2d 113 (1975), see 12 Ga. St. B. J. 197 (1976).

For article, “Res Ipsa Loquitur and Medical Malpractice in Georgia: A Reassessment,” see 17 Ga. L. Rev. 33 (1982).

For article, “Baby Doe Cases: Compromise and Moral Dilemma,” see 34 Emory L. J. 545 (1986).

For note, “The Evolution of the Doctrine of Informed Consent,” see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 581 (1978).

61 Am. Jur. 2d, Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Healers, §§ 148, 149, 150, 154.

70 C. J. S., Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Health Care Providers, §§ 103 et seq., 112 et seq., 138.

Consent as condition of right to perform surgical operation, 76 A. L. R. 562; 139 A. L. R. 1370.

Mental competency of patient to consent to surgical operation or medical treatment, 25 A. L. R.3d 1439.

Necessity and sufficiency of expert evidence to establish existence and extent of physician’s duty to inform patient of risks of proposed treatment, 52 A. L. R.3d 1084.

Power of court or other public agency to order medical treatment for child over parental objections not based on religious grounds, 97 A. L. R.3d 421.

Medical practitioner’s liability for treatment given child without parent’s consent, 67 A. L. R.4th 511.

Power of court or other public agency to order medical treatment over parental religious objections for child whose life is not immediately endangered, 21 A. L. R.5th 248.

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