[Verified Answer]: A 49-year-old man is undergoing an…

A 49-year-old man is undergoing an elective hernia repair. He does not have any significant past medical history and he is not currently taking any medication. The patient has worked as a cardiovascular surgeon in the same hospital for the past 15 years. In obtaining informed consent, the patients doctor has described all the available options for the procedure, outlining the pros and cons of each, has offered different materials for the hernioplasty, and has described the exact procedure. He has not focused too much on the possible complications or on the risks and benefits of not performing the operation, because the patient insists he already knows everything that can happen because he is a surgeon himself. The patient has given his consent, but on the day of the operation, he changes his mind regarding the synthetic mesh material to be used for the hernioplasty. Which of the following is true about informed consent in this case?A.The informed consent could be shortened to just the description of the available options for synthetic mesh because the patient is a medical specialist.B.The informed consent obtained from this patient in this hospital is invalid because he works in the hospital.C.There is no need to receive an informed consent from a patient who is a doctor himself.D.The patients doctor should describe the possible complications of the given operation and the risks and benefits of not performing the surgery, regardless of the patients education or prior experience.E.Even though the patient has changed his mind about the type of mesh material to be implanted during surgery, because the basic procedure is still the same, informed consent does not need to be obtained from the patient again.