DoctorsHaveFeelings,Too有情未必不医生.PDFVIP

新东方《考研英语历年真题详解及复习指南》同源精读 『面对罹患重症却毫无知晓的病人，身为医生，此 时是依照医师职业道德准则的要求将诊断结果如 实告知病人呢，还是从有利于病人医治的角度出 发对病情有所保留呢？』 Doctors Have Feelings, Too 有情未必不医生 By Danielle Ofri March 27, 2012 | from The New York Times Last month, an article in the journal Health Affairs1 made headlines in the news media — “Physicians Are Not Always Open or Honest with Patients.” A vast majority of the nearly 2,000 doctors surveyed agreed that physicians should be fully open and honest in all their communications with patients, as the Charter on Medical Professionalism2 requires, but more than one in 10 had specifically told a patient something that was not 1 Health Affairs ：《卫生事务》，国际上最权威的卫生政策研究学术期刊之一，由世界健康基金会于 1981 年创办。 2 the Charter on Medical Professionalism ： 《医师职业精神宣言》，由美国内科学委员会、美国医师学 院和欧洲内科医学联盟共同发起和倡议。其包括三项基本原则：一、将患者利益放在首位 （Patient welfare ）；二、患者自主 （Patient autonomy ）；三、社会公平 （Social justice ）。 1 / 4 新东方《考研英语历年真题详解及复习指南》同源精读 true within the past year. More than half had framed a prognosis in a more positive light 1 than was warranted . The authors expressed concern that doctors were not fully living up to2 the charter; patients worried that they couldn’t trust what their doctors said. I also found the data disturbing, but for different reasons. I don’t think that doctors are generally a dishonest 3 4 5 bunch . Yes, there are a few utter miscreants out there, and many more who could use a tune-up6 on their communication skills. But I suspect that the dishonesty that is being uncovered in a study such as this — and frankly,