Medical indication
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In medicine, an indication is a valid reason to use a certain test, medication, procedure, or surgery.[1] There can be multiple indications to use a procedure or medication.[2] An indication can commonly be confused with the term diagnosis. A diagnosis is the assessment that a particular [medical] condition is present while an indication is a reason for use.[3] The opposite of an indication is a contraindication,[4] a reason to withhold a certain medical treatment because the risks of treatment clearly outweigh the benefits.
In medicine, operating on living people is only permitted after the (adult) patient has been fully informed about the risks of the operation and has given his/her voluntary consent. In children, there must be an urgent medical indication for the operation. If there is no medical indication, the parents cannot give consent on behalf of their children who are not yet legally capable of giving consent. Otherwise it is a criminal offense. This form of legally inadmissible and therefore non-binding parental consent is regularly present in the case of child circumcisions that are not medically indicated.
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Contraindication - Medical Definition and More from Merriam-Webster
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