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

question 92

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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.
-According to Freedman, a patient's knowledge of diagnosis exists ___________ rather than being all-or-nothing.

• A) only theoretically
• B) along a continuum
• C) as absolute ignorance
• D) as total enlightenment