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Maxwell Boverman, MD
Potomac, Md

JAMA. 1982;248(11):1307.

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To the Editor.—

In "Truth Telling in Medicine" (1982;247:651), Dr Mark Sheldon discussed the following two interesting moral dilemmas:

1. A man has contracted gonorrhea on an extramarital fling and then had intercourse with his wife. Both have the same physician, who is soon due to give the wife a routine examination. The husband requests that the physician treat his wife but conceal the diagnosis, because he fears for the marriage if she learns the truth. Should the physician comply?
   
2. Should a diagnosis of cancer be withheld from a person who might be depressed or despondent, because learning the truth might cause him to commit suicide?
   

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Edited by John D. Archer, MD, Senior Editor.

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