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In rapidly modern society, awareness about medical practice expands unimaginably. Medical malpractice that has intrinsic, customary trait incre ases annually and a damage suit about malpractice also does. The doctor and patient should listen carefully each other in medical malpractice. They should exchange opinions while patient has to demand enough pre-explanation itself. In malpractice suit, explanation duty of doctor is that normally the patient can have to exert self- determination based on personal rights and in cluding explanation about symptom, content of therapy method, content of therapy method and danger when the doctor implements medical practice accompanying physical invasion. Such awareness is that patient is not just object treated but, subjective existence. Therefore importance of explanation about patient grows as meaning of self-determination of each individual. In connection with such explanation duty of doctor, the doctor does not give the patient enough explanation about possibility of bad result. If the doctor give the patient such like explanation, it is preliminary consideration of malpractice suit that the patient did not receive treatment. explanation duty of doctor is for patient’s choice as the patient compares fully necessity or danger with medical practice. the reason why we adopt non-violation theory of explanation to malpractice suit was started from proving obligation to relax theory.