Little White Lies Your Doc May Be Telling You

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Not all doctors may be telling you the truth, more likely what you may want to hear in the moment. For doctors to have disclosed serious medical errors to a patient, this would result in malpractice or unprofessional relationships with their patients or drug companies. Medical companies are a business, so for a doctor to be honest with you on whether or not you need a drug may be a bit of a moral dilemma to them. In fact, more than half of doctors have admitted that they have down played a patients prognosis rather than given the evidence in which the facts may support.

Fear of malpractice, fear of overstepping their financial boundaries with the relationship between patients and their drug companies, and also, the human incentive to not be the bearer of poor news, may all be reason for your doctor to tell you a little white lie every now and then. If you choose not to speak up and demand the facts sometimes, you may be surprised.

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