Article info
Clinical ethics
Paper
Should non-disclosures be considered as morally equivalent to lies within the doctor–patient relationship?
- Correspondence to Dr Zoe B McC Fritz, Department of Acute Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge CB1 3AP, UK; zoefritz{at}gmail.com
Citation
Should non-disclosures be considered as morally equivalent to lies within the doctor–patient relationship?
Publication history
- Received July 15, 2015
- Revised January 14, 2016
- Accepted April 18, 2016
- First published July 22, 2016.
Online issue publication
September 23, 2016
Article Versions
- Previous version (22 July 2016).
- You are viewing the most recent version of this article.
Request permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Copyright information
Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Other content recommended for you
- Therapeutic privilege: between the ethics of lying and the practice of truth
- Medicine, lies and deceptions
- Can deceiving patients be morally acceptable?
- Dotting the I's and crossing the T's: autonomy and/or beneficence? The ‘fetus as a patient’ in maternal–fetal surgery
- Is there a moral duty for doctors to trust patients?
- Ethics of Incongruity: moral tension generators in clinical medicine
- Rights theory in a specific healthcare context: “Speaking ill of the dead”
- Would you like to know what is wrong with you? On telling the truth to patients with dementia
- Using informed consent to save trust
- Impact of adverse media reporting on public perceptions of the doctor–patient relationship in China: an analysis with propensity score matching method