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Ep 338: The Nuances of Intensive Care

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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How to Talk to Patients and Relatives About Mortality

In intensive care, hiding things from the patient is something that is expressly against UK law. As long as the patient has capacity, you never, ever hide anything from the patient. If a patient does not have the mental capacity to take their own decisions, then it's different. And hiding a diagnosis and I texted the liver doctor this morning to apologize for criticizing, but if a patient hascapacity, hiding a diagnosis from a patient is technically a criminal offense.

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