Minciuna terapeutică în relaţia medic-pacient. Perspective etice şi psiho-spirituale
The therapeutic lie in the doctor-patient relationship. Ethical and psycho-spiritual perspectives

Summary/Abstract: Recent trends in the field of medicine and health-care emphasize the shift from medical paternalism to respect of patient autonomy and informed consent, so a patient-centered medicine. Improving communication between doctor and patient can help improve diagnostic accuracy, increase the satisfaction of patients and doctors and thereby contribute to treatment adherence. This paper proposes a reflection on the sense, the use and the role of lying in the doctor-patient relationship, its meaning and its ethical and psycho-spiritual implications. The analysis of its forms of use brings to light not only the social relationships in which the protagonists are inscribed, but also the collision between the diverse logics in which it is founded. I am not trying here to judge the validity or not of lying but to make out what is put into play with its use.

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