PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Consequentialism, Health Professional
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Common suggestion is that if patients knew the truth about their situation, they would likely live their lives very differently than if they remained ignorant. Advocates of full disclosure ( honest communication of the essential facts) also insists that informed patients are better patients patients who know where they stand are more likely to comply with the requirements of their treatment. Some argue that deception breeds distrust and not just bw patient and doctor: (read text pg 146) Impact of the truth on patients may also depends largely on how its told, cases that seem to indicate that truth telling is harmful to patients may instead: (read text pg. Another argument against full disclosure is that patients do not want to know the truth. Esp if prognosis is grim common claim is that even when patients say they want all the facts, they actually do not.
