Department of Legal Medicine and Bioethics, ABC School of Medicine, Santo André, Brazil
Mini Review
Ethics for Clinicians and Surgeons: Speaking the Truth
Author(s): Ivan Dieb Miziara* and Carmen Silvia Molleis Galego Miziara
JBR is a rural worker, he is 68 years old, and six months ago he started to have difficulties urinating during this
period he lost 15 kilos (almost 33 pounds) and started to feel bone pain. About a week ago he suffered a fall and had
to be hospitalized. At the hospital, they diagnosed a fracture of the femur and, after a more detailed investigation, it
was detected that JBR had prostate cancer with bone metastases. His family did not want the diagnosis to be revealed
to him, due to a history of treatment for depression, 3 years ago, after the death of his wife. However, the patient
asked to be told the result of the biopsy performed during hospitalization. In this situation, how should the doctor
proceed? .. View more»