User:Jzalinsky599/Deception in doctor patient relationship/Bibliography

Overview:
More than 55% of doctors have admitted to lying to their patients before by describing their patients conditions in a more positive light. Doctors say that one of the main reasons for this behavior is be doctors are supposed to improve the quality of life for their patients and by telling them only negative information or information where their is no area for improvement does not improve their quality of life. Though the lies being told are not always for the the benefit of the patient benefits. Doctors have admitting to lying or not providing an adequate information to their patients when they made a clinical error in order to improve or maintain the trust between themselves and their patient also between their co-workers. There have also been cases of Doctors lying to their patients in a sexual or financial aspect due to he patients vulnerability.

Ethically Right?
At first glance your may think that there is not aspect where a doctor lying to his or her patient is ethically or morally right though in many aspects it does encompass our ethical and moral values. As stated briefly before their are times where doctors use deception to help improve the quality of life for their patients but is also used to help encourage patients to take part in a new procedure or medication that will be beneficial for them even though the patient might be nervous to participate. Furthermore it has been proven that keeping a positive mindset and stress at a minimum it reduces the chance of major medical issues such as strokes, cancer, respiratory conditions, and deadly infections. Therefore by the doctor lying to the patient increases their chance of survival or recovery and can be seen as ethically right. Though if a doctor is lying for his own personal gains such as hiding mistakes made from the patient or exploiting to patient for financial gains then clearly the lie is ethically wrong.