Ingredients:

Olive Oil to Coat

3 Large Sweet Potatoes

Salt to taste (lots!)

Garlic Powder (1 tspish)

Cinnamon (1 tspish)

Nutmeg (1 tspish)

Taco Seasoning (I used around 3 TBS)

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Put cut fries into large ziploc bag with olive oil, put in salt,
   garlic, cinnamon, nutmeg and taco seasoning.  Shake to coat.
3. Place fries onto baking sheet leaving space between fries.
4. Put in oven for 10 minutes and then flip them over.
5. Place back in for 10 more minutes. (mine were at least another 15 minutes, not 10)
6. They should be soft on the inside and browned on the
   outside.
7. Let cool for 5 minutes.

Informed consent is more than simply getting a patient to sign a written
consent form. It is a process of communication between a patient and physician
that results in the patient’s authorization or agreement to undergo a specific
medical intervention.

In the communications process, you, as the physician providing or performing
the treatment and/or procedure (not a delegated representative), should disclose
and discuss with your patient:

• The patient’s diagnosis, if known;
• The nature and purpose of a proposed treatment or procedure;
• The risks and benefits of a proposed treatment or procedure;
• Alternatives (regardless of their cost or the extent to which the treatment
  options are covered by health insurance);
• The risks and benefits of the alternative treatment or procedure; and
• The risks and benefits of not receiving or undergoing a treatment or
  procedure.

In turn, your patient should have an opportunity to ask questions to elicit a
better understanding of the treatment or procedure, so that he or she can make
an informed decision to proceed or to refuse a particular course of medical
intervention.

This communications process, or a variation thereof, is both an ethical
obligation and a legal requirement spelled out in statutes and case law in all
50 states. (For more information about ethical obligations, see the AMA’s Code
of Medical Ethics, contained in the AMA PolicyFinder. Providing
the patient relevant information has long been a physician’s ethical obligation,
but the legal concept of informed consent itself is recent.

The first case defining informed consent appeared in the late 1950′s. Earlier
consent cases were based in the tort of battery, under which liability is
imposed for unpermitted touching. Though battery claims occasionally occur when
treatment is provided without consent, most consent cases generally center
around whether the consent was “informed”, i.e., whether the patient was given
sufficient information to make a decision regarding his or her body and health
care. Because informed consent claims, unlike battery claims, are based in
negligence, they generally are covered by liability insurance.

To protect yourself in litigation, in addition to carrying adequate liability
insurance, it is important that the communications process itself be documented.
Good documentation can serve as evidence in a court of the law that the process
indeed took place. A timely and thorough documentation in the patient’s chart by
the physician providing the treatment and/or performing the procedure can be a
strong piece of evidence that the physician engaged the patient in an
appropriate discussion. A well-designed, signed informed consent form may also
be useful, but an overly broad or highly detailed form actually can work against
you. Forms that serve mainly to satisfy all legal requirements (stating for
example that “all material risks have been explained to me”) may not preclude a
patient from asserting that the actual disclosure did not include risks that the
patient unfortunately discovered after treatment. At the other extreme, listing
all of the risks may not be wise either. A comprehensive listing will be
difficult for the patient to understand and any omission from the list will
likely be presumed undisclosed. If you are using a form that contains a list,
consider, with your attorney, inserting language indicating that the list is not
exclusive (such as “included, but not limited to”) before the list begins.
Medicare participating physicians must also be cognizant of CMS’s requirements
for informed consent.

Again, this is general knowledge you can use when you ask for further
information and advice from qualified attorneys and/or other professional
consultants. If you need a referral to a qualified attorney, please contact your
state medical society.