A physician is treating a 23-year-old patient for a terminal illness. The patient is already extremely distraught and depressed, so the physician decides to withhold relevant information-reasoning that the disclosure would likely do great harm and not much good. The physical is exercising

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Therapeutic privilege allows a physician to withhold information from a patient if disclosing it is believed to cause harm or distress that outweighs the benefits of the patient knowing the information. In this scenario, the physician is using therapeutic privilege by choosing not to disclose certain information to avoid causing further distress to the patient.

A Physician Is Treating a 23-Year-Old Patient for a Terminal