2005 Idaho Code - 39-4505 — SUFFICIENCY OF CONSENT

                                  TITLE  39
                              HEALTH AND SAFETY
                                  CHAPTER 45
                  THE MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT
    39-4505.  SUFFICIENCY OF CONSENT. Consent for the furnishing of hospital,
medical, dental or surgical care, treatment or procedures shall be valid in
all respects if the person giving the consent is sufficiently aware of
pertinent facts respecting the need for, the nature of, and the significant
risks ordinarily attendant upon, such a patient receiving such care, as to
permit the giving or withholding of such consent to be a reasonably informed
decision. Any such consent shall be deemed valid and so informed if the
physician or dentist to whom it is given or by whom it is secured has made
such disclosures and given such advice respecting pertinent facts and
considerations as would ordinarily be made and given under the same or similar
circumstances, by a like physician or dentist of good standing practicing in
the same community. As used in this section, the term "in the same community"
refers to that geographic area ordinarily served by the licensed general
hospital at or nearest to which such consent is given.