Telling the truth: why disclosure matters in chronic kidney disease

Telling the truth: why disclosure matters in chronic kidney disease.

Helliwell et al wrote an excellent article on the diagnosis and management of polymyalgia rheumatica, but I do question one of their statements that the average fulltime GP would see five new cases of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) per year.1 They quote an incidence in the UK of 8.42 per 10 000 person years. In an average size practice of less than 2000 patients per GP, surely this correlates to ...

Telling the truth? Disclosure, therapeutic privilege and intersexuality in children.

Family physicians, pediatricians, and geneticists meet a variety of young patients at various stages of the maturing process. As clinicians are privy to information about their patients that may be disturbing, they develop knowledge about human nature and decide, often along with parents, the appropriate level of information for different children and adolescents. And while it may be possible i...

Telling Patients the Truth

This article discusses the ethical necessity of health care workers telling their patients the truth about both their diagnosis and prognosis. This necessity is based upon respect for persons, utility, and kindness. Within this ethical obligation to tell the truth, however, there are several different ways in which the truth can be told. In particular, this paper stresses that telling patients ...

Telling the truth.

Are doctors and nurses bound by just the same constraints as everyone else in regard to honesty? What, anyway, does honesty require? Telling no lies? Avoiding intentional deception by whatever means? From a utilitarian standpoint lying would seem to be on the same footing as other forms of intentional deception: yielding the same consequences. But utilitarianism fails to explain the wrongness o...

Vitamin deficiencies in chronic kidney disease