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Truth Telling in the Case of a Pessimistic Diagnosis in Japan
Creator
Akabayashi, A.
Kai, I.
Takemura, H.
Okazaki, H.
Bibliographic Citation
Lancet. 1999 Oct 9; 354(9186): 1263.
Abstract
We investigated how physicians in Japan convey a poor prognosis of advanced cancer. Physicians tended to give patients optimistic accounts of their prognosis, while they were inclined to give the families pessimistic accounts.
