New challenges in medical law. Patient-doctor relationship, informed consent and medical civil liability in the era of AI.

Change isn't something new to Medicine. Since the beginning of times, Medicine has been forced to, progressively, adapt according to scientific, biological and technological discoveries as well to the social and ethical transformations. Nowadays, the evolution of Medicine points out to the gradual introduction of new supporting tools in healthcare, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), which can be very challenging. The challenges are not the ones relate to the introduction of AI or other technological tools, per si, since that seems inevitable, but how their introduction may impact some cornerstones of Medicine Law, such as physician-patient relationship, consent and even physicians' civil liability. Summing up, we are dealing with newer challenges of even older issues. In this article, we aim to review the doctor-patient relationship, duty of information and consent and medical civil liability in the light of the introduction of AI supporting tools in healthcare.