Telling the Diagnosis of Dementia: Consider Each Patient Individually

Truth-telling and the diagnosis of dementia.

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The ethics of telling the patient.

A National Health Service psychotherapist criticizes the strategems employed by hospital staff in their communication with cancer patients. He argues that the issue is not simply whether or not to tell the truth but, more importantly, how to do so. Silence, deception, euphemistic language, and projection of the physician's or nurse's feelings onto the patient aggravate psychological stress an...

diagnosis and treatment of dementia

alzheimers disease (ad) is by far the most common cause of dementia. definite diagnosis of ad is based on pathological findings. nincds-adrda criteria, published more than 25 years ago, are commonly used for the clinical diagnosis of ad. however, considering serious shortcomings of these criteria, new criteria have been proposed. according to these new criteria, ad can be diagnosed in predement...

Investigating the Relationship between Belief in Each of the Physician's Perspectives on Patient Responsibility and Accountability

One of the most important issues in medical law is the issue of physician responsibility. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between belief in each of the physician's responsibilities towards the patient and responsibility. The research method is library and descriptive-correlation. An examination of various sources shows that there are four perspectives on the physician'...