For centuries there was an informal rule not to tell the truth to cancer patients. The paternalistic model of relationships still exists in many societies in relation to the issue of informing the patient. The object of this paper is to study the issue of truth telling to terminally ill patients in Bulgarian hospices. Materials and methods. The study employed a combination of sociological and s...

In the present paper we consider the allocation of costs in connection networks. Agents have connection demands in form of pairs of locations they want to be connected. Connections between locations are costly to build. The problem is to allocate costs of networks satisfying all connection demands. We use three axioms to characterize allocation rules that truthfully implement cost minimizing ne...

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 ...

PURPOSE Increased use of prenatal technologies has increased the numbers of women and partners whose fetus is diagnosed with a severe impairment. Virtue ethics provides a useful perspective to consider truth telling in this context, specifically how couples and providers interpret the diagnosis and prognosis to create truth. Virtue ethics is person-centered rather than act-centered, with moral ...