Citation

Higgs R. J. Med. Ethics 1982; 8(1): 48-50.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7069736

PMCID

PMC1060828

Abstract

A physician describes and comments on the case of a middle-aged couple in which the husband requests that his wife not be told she has an incurable malignancy. When the wife finally confronts the doctor and demands the truth, her emotional depression is lifted and she dies soon afterward.

Language: en