 The turn of the 21st century has seen doubts surfacing about informed consent, but that just makes the resilience of other parts of the requirement all the more striking. Even purported critics usually revise only the requirement’s prevalent justifications and interpretations in borderline areas, and leave a certain “core” intact. Given how much philosophers usually disagree, it is remarkable that, when a medical intervention is risky, value-laden, high-impact, physically invasive, and/or medically controversial, especially when a patient of sound mind explicitly refuses the intervention, most of us would feel that only the most dire costs would justify imposition of care. The grudging nature of relative skeptics’ acceptance of this core part of the requirement only attests to its philosophical resilience.