Abstract
According to surveys, at least 70 per cent of doctors now believe in telling people the truth about their cancers, as compared with 82 per cent who practiced oppositely only 24 years ago.Surveys often show quick turnabouts of public opinion, especially toward issues and leaders, but the attitude of physicians in this area changed little in the 160 years before the past 20. Thomas Percival, in his Medical Ethics, first published in 1803, argues that "to a patient... who makes inquiries which, if faithfully answered, might prove fatal to him, it would be a gross and unfeeling wrong to . . .
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