Your Doctor May Be Keeping Secrets - ABC News: "Not all doctors believe that honesty is the best policy, according to a new survey published in Health Affairs. When a team of researchers surveyed almost 2,000 physicians nationwide, they discovered a disturbing trend of white coats telling some white lies:
34 percent of doctors don't think they should disclose serious medical errors to patients, and nearly 20 percent said they didn't disclose an error last year for fear of a malpractice case.
Almost two-fifths of doctors don't think they need to share their financial relationships with drug companies to patients.
Just over 10 percent of physicians say they told their patients something that wasn't true in the past year."
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