What’s really up, doc?

Posted on February 9, 2012
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Did you know that your doctor could be lying to you? It’s likelier than you think. In a survey of doctors in the medical journal Health Affairs:

55 percent admitted to sugarcoating a patient’s prognosis.
10 percent to saying something that just wasn’t true. (Probably the doctors who claim to know someone who lost a patient to a marijuana overdose.)
About 33 percent didn’t feel the need to admit mistakes to patients.
40 percent would prefer to keep their financial ties to drug and device companies on the down-low.

It just goes to show: never trust anyone who attends eight years of college and doesn’t die.

Written by Rick Snee