Benjamin Freedman | Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient
Freedman details an approach to ameliorating the tensions that can arise among and between health-care providers, patients, and family members over disclosing the truth about cancer diagnoses, particularly in cases in which the family's cultural background does not include Western medicine. His "offering truth" approach allows patients to determine exactly how much truth about a diagnosis they are willing to hear. Family members are generally happy to accept a patient's own desires in this matter.
-The author's ___________ approach is to allow a patient the opportunity to learn the truth at whatever level of detail that patient desires.
A) withholding truth
B) total truth
C) "offering truth"
D) enlightened truth

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Freedman's "offering truth" approach involves allowing patients to decide how much information they want about their diagnosis, aligning with the description provided.