dr_sarim
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this question popped up in someone exams and she said she was confused with the 2 choices.....
Adult male consulted for hereditary colonic CA with suggestive symptoms. Brother and father died of same diagnosis. Work-up reveals colonic CA. wife implores to you not to tell patient for fear of depression. What to do?
a)telling patient outright
b)asking patient first what he wants to know about the results?
. Of course whatever the wife says is immaterial.
i will go for (b)
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| leen
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i would also go with B
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| zziggy
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I've read somewhere a similar q and the explained answer was (and there was a choice there that stated that) - ask wife why she thinks that he may go into depression, gain new info, and tell patient (presumably modeling your approach by the info you gain from wife).
if not this choice, B.
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| tolito
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yes zziggy. 
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