Re: Would you like your doctor to lie to you if you had cancer?
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I realize this has been common practice in some places in the past, but I would imagine that the USA currently, it would open up the doctor to a lawsuit too much.
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I would agree with that. In med school, I don't recall being taught to hide info as it would be fairly rare for a person to not want to know. But we do spend a lot of time in learning HOW to break bad news...
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I'd feel a lot better about a doctor if they'd just say: "yea, you have blah, and you're going to die unless you have any great ideas that we haven't thought of yet. I'm sorry about that."
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