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INTRODUCTION When a doctor or other health care professional has no consent at all to touch someone, it has been seen that an action in battery will lie at the suit of the person touched unless some justifying or excusing circumstances exists. However, English law is reluctant to see the law of battery invoked in the context of medical care[1]. Thus, provided that the person touched knows â??in broad termsâ??[2] the general nature and purpose of the touching, this will be regarded as sufficie