Palliative and Supportive Care

Table of Contents - 2008 - Volume 6, Issue 04  

Essay/Personal Reflections

The dying patient: The right to know versus the duty to be aware

Shlomit Perya1 c1 and Simon Weina2

a1 Department of Psycho-oncology, The Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikvah, Israel

a2 Pain and Palliative Care Service, The Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikvah, Israel

Should terminal patients know about their impending deaths? How much should they know? How do we determine “should”?

(Received March 04 2008)

(Accepted April 26 2008)

Correspondence:

c1 Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Shlomit Pery, Department of Psycho-oncology, The Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikvah, 49100, Israel. E-mail: perys@clalit.org.il