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[tinyjo]

OK, just for fun, here is the essay question I will be answering this afternoon:

‘It is wrong to tell lies, so patients should always be told the truth about their condition.’ Is this a good argument?

I've turned off emailing comments on this and I promise not to look until I've written the essay (1000 words, in case you're interested). What do you think?

Comments

[prissi.livejournal.com]

This makes perfect sense, and yes, the whole anger and mistrust thing is a huge part of it. The last thing that you want as a physician is to damage the physician-patient relationship in such a powerfully irreparable way. If there isn't trust, then there isn't... compliance. We hate that word, because you ideally want the relationship to be a partnership, not a "you do this, because I said so, because I am the doctor" type thing, but there really is no other way to state it. :x