Vera Lúcia Raposo, consultant associate at Health practice, saw recently published on the Biomedical Law Center magazine - Lex Medicinae ("Revista do Centro de Direito Biomédico | Lex Medicinae") - an article on the topic of informed consent for the provision of health care (in which in a recent past, the absence of such consent materialized one lawful-criminal) and new regime for advanced directives will.

The present study grew out from a lecture prepared for intensive care professionals and aims to be a reflection on the responsibility of the doctor, the intensivist in particular, in a context of extreme complexity and legal ethics.