PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hysterectomy
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Crucial question: is the deception intended to benefit the doctor or the patient; lipkin says if it"s to benefit the doctor then deception is wrong. Lipkin: to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to a patient is absurd . Cullen and klein refute: of course physicians can"t tell the whole truth", but neither can lawyers, mechanics, etc. Lipkin: knowing the truth is likely to cause patient harm. Ackerman: doctors should act paternalistically while patient is ill to restore autonomy in the long run. Cullen and klein: it"s easy to overestimate the extent to which deceiving a patient helps recovery and underestimate benefits of telling the truth.
