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The dying patient: The right to know versus the duty to be aware

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2008

Shlomit Pery  and
Simon Wein
Shlomit Pery*
Affiliation:
Department of Psycho-oncology, The Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikvah, Israel
Simon Wein
Affiliation:
Pain and Palliative Care Service, The Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikvah, Israel
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Shlomit Pery, Department of Psycho-oncology, The Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikvah, 49100, Israel. E-mail: perys@clalit.org.il
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Extract

Should terminal patients know about their impending deaths? How much should they know? How do we determine “should”?

Type
Essay/Personal Reflections
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 397 - 401
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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