A Health Professional Who Withholds the Truth from a Patient

question 17

Multiple Choice

A health professional who withholds the truth from a patient, saying it is for her own good, is engaged in what practice?

• A)fraud
• B)infidelity
• C)benevolent deception
• D)nonmaleficence

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