Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1991
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
We have come to accept, as a matter of both law and medical ethics, that open and honest discussion is crucial to the doctor–patient relationship. We accordingly deplore the practice in Plato's Greece whereby, for slaves, "verbal communication between healer and patient was reduced to a minimum." But restricting conversation between doctor and patient has now become a matter of government policy, again distinguishing patients according to economic class.
Recommended Citation
George J. Annas,
Restricting Doctor–Patient Conversations in Federally Funded Clinics
,
in
325
New England Journal of Medicine
362
(1991).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1246
Comments
From The New England Journal of Medicine, George J. Annas, Restricting Doctor–Patient Conversations in Federally Funded Clinics, Volume 325, Page 362 Copyright ©(1991) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.