TY - JOUR T1 - Informed consent: response JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 65 LP - 66 DO - 10.1136/jme.27.1.65-a VL - 27 IS - 1 AU - Anne Zachary Y1 - 2001/02/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/27/1/65.2.abstract N2 - SIRI would like to acknowledge with regret that my sentence, of which Ms Stevens quotes half, is convoluted. A book review1 is necessarily condensed and perhaps if it creates a problem it is best to read the book. But, in the complex legal, moral and ethical dilemmas arising in subjects such as confidentiality, it is highly dangerous to take half a sentence out of context (and I note that Ms Stevens does this to Maureen Marks's review2 also) and use it to discuss a separate agenda, ie secrecy within the National Health Service (NHS).I would … ER -