On Being a Doctor: Deflection of a Diagnosis

  1. Paul C. Rousseau, MD
  1. From Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 85012.

    TO THE EDITOR:

    Annals of Internal Medicine recently published a piece I wrote for the On Being a Doctor series. In “Deflection of a Diagnosis” (1), I described the difficulty that a physician experienced in informing a terminally ill patient that he was dying. In fact, the …

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