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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="20-114" title_number="20" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Provisions" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Consent Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Before a physician operates on a patient to insert a breast implant, the physician shall inform the patient of the advantages, disadvantages, and risks associated with a breast implantation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Department shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Provide a standardized written summary in layman’s language that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Contains all the information on breast implantation generally contained in the information sheet for the breast implant; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Discloses side effects, warnings, and cautions for a breast implantation operation;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Update as necessary the standardized written summary; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Distribute the standardized written summary to each hospital, clinic, and physician’s office and any other facility that performs breast implantations.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A physician satisfies the requirements of subsection (a) of this section if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The physician provides the breast implantation patient with the standardized written summary described in subsection (b) of this section;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The patient receives the standardized written summary 5 days before the breast implantation operation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The patient signs a statement provided by the Department acknowledging the receipt of the standardized written summary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
