Your facility has been served with a lawsuit by Mr. and Mrs. C, parents of D.C, a minor child. The suit alleges that last summer D.C. was brought to the Emergency Room for a head laceration after falling at the playground. The attending Emergency Room physician treated the laceration with 15 stitches, and also provided follow-up care by removing the stitches a week after the procedure. In the suit, the parents claim they were never provided information that the wound was severe enough to warrant a plastic surgery consultation, and never given the option of having a plastic surgeon perform the procedure. They are unhappy with the appearance of the scar on their daughter's forehead and allege that it would have been less prominent had the procedure been performed by a plastic surgeon, who is a medical doctor (M.D.), rather than the attending Emergency Room physician, who is a doctor of osteopathy (D.O.). The parents claim they would never have agreed to the Emergency Room physician performing the procedure if they had known they had the option of having the on-call plastic surgeon perform the procedure. Their lawsuit alleges they did not have all the information necessary to consent to this procedure on behalf of their daughter. You pulled the patient's record, and you find no mention of the Emergency Room physician discussing the option of a plastic surgery consultation with the family prior to obtaining consent for the procedure. Analyze and critically