When Doctors Don’t Tell the Truth
This is a pretty interesting article about some research into physicians and lying.
“While a majority of the nearly 2,000 doctors polled believed that physicians should never lie to patients or fail to inform them of the risks and benefits of a procedure or treatment, a large number also revealed that they had not been completely honest or transparent over the past year. More than half had described a patient’s prognosis more optimistically than warranted. More than 10 percent had said something untrue. And even though almost all the doctors said that they believed confidential health information should be disclosed only with authorization, more than two-thirds had revealed private health information to others without the patient’s explicit permission.”
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/when-doctors-dont-tell-the-truth/
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