Ethics-Governance: Article: Request To Withold The Truth At The End Of Life

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Request To Withold The Truth At The End Of Life Request To Withold The Truth At The End Of Life, Dr Paulina Taboada, Profesor Centro de Bioetica Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Alameda 340 Correo Central 1 Santiago, Chile. A frequent ethical dilemma in Cancer Medicine is the question of truthfulness with terminally ill cancer patients. Reluctance to share the truth with the patient about his or her diagnosis or prognosis are often associated with cultural differences. While in developed countries in the 1970’s there was a massive movement from non-disclosure to full disclosure of diagnosis and prognosis, in many regions of Europe, Japan, and developing countries, the pattern continues to be predominately that of non-disclosure of diagnosis and prognosis. The ethical question I shall briefly analyze in the following is whether family’s requests to withhold the truth about the diagnosis or prognosis to a patient can be ethically acceptable. Full Article: http://www.hospicecare.com/Ethics/monthlypiece/eithics2002/pom_aug.htm


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