Lying to My Mom
In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician-medical ethicist navigates the decision to honor his 87-year-old mother’s wishes to refrain from cancer treatment and elects not to tell her of a mass in her liver discovered by a CT scan.
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| Veröffentlicht in: | JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2023-10, Vol.330 (14), p.1333-1334 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician-medical ethicist navigates the decision to honor his 87-year-old mother’s wishes to refrain from cancer treatment and elects not to tell her of a mass in her liver discovered by a CT scan. |
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| ISSN: | 0098-7484 1538-3598 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/jama.2023.17581 |