According To Lipkin: Why It Is Impossible To Tell Patients The Whole Truth

Have you ever had a belief that you were so passionate about, that your actions, words, and behavior reflect on it? That is integrity. Think for example, you believe being considerate is right. Thus you’d think before you speak, behave, or act. This shows consideration because you are thinking of how other people feel.

The exegetical challenges proposed by the Anonymous Iamblichi and the Double Arguments purports that life is filled with conundrums, thus there is never a single way to view a subject. According to the text, for an individual who conducts what is deemed to be good is really doing a bad deed. For example, when farming is going well and produces good crops it is beneficial to the farmers, yet bad for the merchants. Another example is war, which is good for the winners but bad for the losers.

The lack of acceptance towards mental illnesses being considered actual illnesses has left many people with a fractured truth about mental illnesses as a whole. Although society is getting better at dealing with mental illnesses, there is still the perception that mental illnesses do not need to be treated because they are not visible wounds, which is completely untrue. Both John and Kathy think like this. "... Kathy did not insist that he see a psychiatrist ad that John did not feel the need to seek help." (O'Brien 75)

When it comes to tell the truth most of the time is sounds like a very easy thing to do especially for people who work in health care industries. Nurses ranked as the most trustworthy, with 82 percent of American ranking their honesty and ethical standards as high or very high. Nurses have continuously been listed at the top of the survey, beating out other professions including doctors, teachers, and pharmacists. (Gallup poll, 2015).But sometimes telling the truth it depends with situation/carcermstamces. As health care provider sometimes you find yourself to be in the situation where you have to withhold the truth for therapeutic privilege.

Many people wonder is it wrong to lie or are there some situation where lying is the best option? In the book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, Mark Haddon shifts Christopher’s outlook on honesty and changed his outlook dramatically. Many people, including Christopher, believe in the statement “honesty is the best policy.” However while Christopher becomes more independent, he realizes that in some situations being dishonest might be the best answer. When his father lies to Christopher, Christopher follows his father’s actions and starts to comprehend when he must lie.

If one is honest, they are to be free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere. The quality of being honest is honesty. Although characters in The Great Gatsby are quite sincere, they fall short in the possession of honesty. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which depicts how American life was during the Roaring Twenties.

Can anyone say they’ve never lied before? No, everyone has told a lie at least once in their life, but does that make it okay? Well, the german philosopher, Immanuel Kant, strongly feels that lying destroys the liar’s human dignity and that under no circumstances is lying excused. Brad Blanton, the author of “Radical Honesty,” agrees that we shouldn't lie. He believes that lying puts an unnecessary stress on our lives, but he disagrees with Kant’s remark that lying is never justified.

Introduction Have you ever thought about the mystery of medicine? Medicine is a unique major, it is not just like any other major, it is more as a life saver, changer, and protector. The study of medicine is very exciting, as the medical students study everything in the human body including its cells, tissues, organs and organ systems and how these organ systems combine and work together to make the whole human body that appears to us. The college of medicine will graduate doctors who have the knowledge to help patients to get rid of their pains and have the communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with them. There are two points of views about medicine, either it is a science or it is an art.

literature review Informed consent is an ethical and legal obligation for the physicians to communicate to the patient and results in the patient’s agreement to undergo a medical procedure. It is taken as a safety tool for both patient and the surgical team and Informed consent originated from legal and ethical principles(10); this is done by improving patients’ knowledge and perception about informed consent process that enables the patient to decide on their surgical procedure freely and intentionally without enforcement .in Ethiopia according to guidelines developed in Addis Ababa in April, 2016 of Medical Ethics for doctors in Ethiopia under article 26 states that “It is the duty of the doctor to inform the patient about the treatment

Why it is Good, To Be Honest Honesty means being honest and truthful to anyone in all aspects. “There are few qualities that define the morality of a human being and honesty is one of them. If one cannot trust what one is saying it is difficult to have a stable relationship with them.” This is a quote from none other than Sharon Kazi and it is one well spoken. Also when I interviewed my father Tareque Kazi, he said: “Honesty is one of the foundations of a good person and it is easier to be honest than to be dishonest.”

In Joseph Collins article, “Should Doctors Tell the Truth?” he states that doctors shouldn’t tell the truth to their patients that deals with their life and death. Collins argued that doctor should withhold the truth on any circumstances. For example, when Collins blamed himself because of the death of a lawyer who suffered from kidney disease, only if he had lied to the lawyer about his health issue, the lawyer still could have been alive. However, I believe that doctors should always tell the truth to their patients regardless of the circumstances because withholding information violates patient’s autonomy and harms the doctor-patient relationship.