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World Journal of Surgery
Published in: World Journal of Surgery 12/2014

01-12-2014 | Reply, Letter to the Editor

Withholding Tragic Knowledge May Lead to a Tragic Death: A Palliative Care Perspective: Reply

Authors: Megha Suri, Martin McKneally, Karen Devon

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 12/2014

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We thank Dr. Ying [1] for her important additions to the discourse on truth-telling and the maintenance of hope. We agree that encouraging unrealistic expectations is inconsistent with beneficence and may lead to harmful treatment decisions. Her examples illustrate how maintaining hope at the expense of realistic expectations can be misleading and harmful if unmodulated by wisdom and care. We believe with her that hope, administered by ear, can bring comfort without inflicting false expectations in the setting of a poor prognosis. …
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Title
Withholding Tragic Knowledge May Lead to a Tragic Death: A Palliative Care Perspective: Reply
Authors
Megha Suri
Martin McKneally
Karen Devon
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
World Journal of Surgery / Issue 12/2014
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-014-2741-6

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