CONSENTIMIENTO INFORMADO, UNA VISIóN PANORáMICA

informed consent is a key complex and strongly debated, issue in medical liability in contrast to many other countries, in the chilean case we lack a statute that requires health professionals to provide material information to patients in order to allow them to fully exercises their autonomy we also lack a significant corpus of judicial decisions in this regará, and, finally chilean scholars have not devoted their best efforts to develop the topic. the aim of this work is to provide a synoptic view of informed consent, its justif？catión and some of the most debated issues about it.