Abstract
The concept of informed consent has become since the Salgo case an essential term in bioethics and a framework of any medical treatment. Although it seems prima facie rather plain as a mere consent of a patient to proposals with pertinent information made by a doctor the facts are different: informed consent is rather an intricate phenomenon of the modern medicine and deserves further study.
Facets of informed consent always interwoven with each other which are worth mentioning here are labeled: asymmetrical/symmetrical. This fact is crucial for distinction between two branches of philosophical ethics as such.
Then we should be aware that the informed consent is permeated by various sorts of clash between principles that has been named dilemma and that is catapulting philosophical ethics to a level different from the classical morality known since the ancient times. Medicine is prompted on this background to become more philosophical and evolve a new approach to education of its candidates.