Patient partnership is not a magic formula

EDITOR—Partnership with patients in sharing medical decisions is an idea of paramount civil importance for modern health systems, as raised in correspondence in the eBMJ.1 Partnership stems, on the one hand, from the reasons underlying the right to informed consent to medical practices and the humanisation of the approach to patients and, on the other, from the development of advocacy in health promotion and self determination of civil rights. Such a profound innovation increases …