Word: consent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Bush's MEDICAL PRIVACY rules, effective April 2003, will relax the ones that ex-President Clinton proposed, which would have required PATIENTS to provide written consent before doctors could give out their records. The impact: patients won't need a consent form to pick up prescriptions or see a specialist, but they also won't have the power to prevent disclosures before treatment. DOCTORS criticize Bush for removing the need for patient consent but will be freer in hospitals to discuss cases with colleagues. INSURERS, which fought for the Bush rules, can soon avoid paperwork that might dissuade patients...
Howard and producer Brian Grazer acquired the rights to Sylvia Nasar's unauthorized biography of John Forbes Nash and his wife Alicia. But they also had to pay Nash for his "life" rights. Nash negotiated a deal containing a "can't include without consent" clause and insisted he not be depicted as a homosexual because it wouldn't be true. He made no demands about his episode of anti-Jewish delusions described in the book or his relationship with another woman, with whom he fathered a son. Howard just didn't care to focus on those aspects, which he thought...
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL How does an author learn to write convincing sex scenes? If she's a romance writer, she can attend a sex-writing class at the Romance Writers of America's annual convention. But what can an aspiring Philip Roth do? Ben Schrank, the author of "Consent" (Random House: March) says that the key to writing persuasive sex scenes is "learning what innuendo means, and knowing what to cut out. Readers will fill in the more provocative details." Schrank, 32, should know...
...Consent," the two main characters, Mike Zabusky and Katherine Staresina, are so drawn to each other at a party that they have "a sexual collision" against a bathroom wall within two hours of meeting each other. Are the sex scenes in his novel taken from Schrank's own life? The author smiles coyly. "After I've revised them a thousand times, I don't know what's true and what...
While the Federal Rights and Privacy Act requires written consent from the student before education records are released to a third party, consent is not required if a university receives a subpoena for students records...