Abstract
Most physicians in practice are frequently confronted with the question of what to tell a patient who has a serious or fatal disease. Should the patient be told the truth? What, when, and how should he be told? What should his family be told? What are the therapeutic, ethical, religious, materialistic, and legal factors to be considered in coming to a decision? This little book is an outgrowth of a discussion of such problems at a meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine.
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