In two recent national surveys of 4510 Americans, 60%–80% admitted they had not been
forthcoming with doctors about information that could be relevant to their health. The online …

How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information
do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three …

Medical misinformation (MM) is a problem for both medical practitioners and patients in the
21st century. Medical practitioners have anecdotally reported encounters with patient-held …

The Charter on Medical Professionalism, endorsed by more than 100 professional groups
worldwide and the US Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, requires …

Most patients trust their health care professionals, 1 but many also turn to sources outside of
the examination room for medical information. Although many resources provide accurate …

Objective: How honestly patients report their symptoms and medication adherence to their
physicians has not been adequately addressed in patients with depression. We therefore …

Results All 104 patients who were approached to participate consented to be interviewed.
Interviews lasted a median of 26 minutes; no more than 2 patients were interviewed on any …

Why Physicians Ought to Lie for Their Patients it is unimportant but because it is both
critically important and uncontroversial among academic physicians and trainees, for whom …

Importance Patient failure to disclose medically relevant information to clinicians can
undermine patient care or even lead to patient harm. Objective To examine the frequency of …

In the present-day digital world, it is challenging to function comprehensively, given our
increasing reliance on the internet, which has touched every aspect of our lives, including …