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Truth‐Telling
In Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer (eds.), A Companion to Bioethics. Malden, Mass., USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 520–529 (1998)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: The Clinical Encounter Medical Paternalism Re‐examined Ethical Frameworks The Temptation to Deceive Different Forms of Deception Communicating Outside Medicine Character, Context, and Care References Further reading.
truth‐telling problem of telling the truth in health care phrase “doctor knows best” enshrining tradition of paternalism in health service discovery of unacknowledged clinical error ‐ dilemmas for health‐care staff medical paternalism re‐examined putting across a technical issue may be too difficult medical ethics ‐ publicly important at least in part ethical frameworks temptations to deceive communicating outside medicine
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