Obtaining Informed Consent:
A Online Guidebook for Healthcare Professionals

"Without consent, either written or oral, no [treatment] may be performed. This is not a mere formality; it is an important individual right to have control over one's own body, even where medical treatment is involved. It is the patient, not the doctor, who decides whether [treatment] will be performed, where it will be done, when it will be done and by whom it will be done."

V. Allan. New Mount Sinai Hospital (1980). 28. O.R. 357.