The process of obtaining the TCLE: commitments and responsibilities

Abstract

The so-called “term of consent” emerged as a na form of contract between the patient and the institution of health, formalizing
its authorization to carry out of routine clinical procedures. In Brazil, it was – and is still – common to the existence, in
health institutions, of documents of the "disclaimer" type that, as its name implies, it formalized the consent of the patient with the handling of his body, “giving up of his own body”, in the understanding that “the other know what's good for me.
" These documents follow the tradition and culture of the clinic, structured under the “knowledge health professional's hermetic"
that did not visualize the other as an autonomous person, with intelligence and ability to understand the operations that you would be destined. This was a way, deliberate or unconscious, of dehumanizing the object of attention into health.