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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Many doctors hide the truth about medical errors, study finds - latimes.com

Some things are better left unsaid – and that includes certain aspects of your medical condition, doctors say.

In a nationwide survey of roughly 1,800 physicians, 17% had some level of disagreement with the notion that they should “never tell a patient something that is not true.” Not only that, but 11% of those surveyed acknowledged that they had told a patient “something that was not true” in the past year.

From: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-doctors-not-honest-with-patients-20120208,0,6952403.story

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