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    A physician's epistemic uncertainty about outcome must be... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A physician is justified in performing an operation even without knowing the operation will save the patient

    A physician's epistemic uncertainty about outcome must be disclosed to the patient, making the patient's consent—not the operation's uniqueness—the true justificatory basis.

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    • 1.Patients are autonomous agents entitled to make decisions based on complete information about risks, not merely structural novelty of procedures.
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    • 2.Epistemic humility about outcomes respects patient dignity by acknowledging limitations rather than false certainty that conceals actual unknowns.
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    • 3.Informed consent grounded in disclosed uncertainty provides better ethical justification than operational uniqueness, which patients cannot evaluate.
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    • 1.Disclosing all epistemic uncertainties may paralyze patients with excessive information, making consent meaningfully impossible rather than informed.
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    • 2.Physicians have fiduciary duties to recommend procedures, not neutrally catalog uncertainties; pure disclosure undermines beneficent medical judgment.
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    • 3.Procedural uniqueness and experimental status already carry implicit disclosure value; added uncertainty articulation may create redundant legal exposure.
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