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.