Benjamin Freedman | Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed

question 52

Multiple Choice

Benjamin Freedman | Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient
Freedman details an approach to ameliorating the tensions that can arise among and between health-care providers, patients, and family members over disclosing the truth about cancer diagnoses, particularly in cases in which the family's cultural background does not include Western medicine. His "offering truth" approach allows patients to determine exactly how much truth about a diagnosis they are willing to hear. Family members are generally happy to accept a patient's own desires in this matter.
-When knowledge of a diagnosis is withheld from a patient, it is most likely that family members made the decision to do so

• A) during a medical crisis or surgery.
• B) before a firm diagnosis is established.
• C) against the patient's stated wishes.
• D) both a and b

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Definitions:

Abduction

To move away from the midline.

Midline

The middle.

Inversion

The act of turning something inside out or upside down, or the conversion of a genetic sequence.

Median Plane

An anatomical term describing a vertical plane that divides the body into equal left and right halves.