Medical ethics and truth telling in the case of androgen insensitivity syndrome.
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Abstract
Should a physician always tell the truth to a patient? Is biomedical ethics too "politically correct" in certain situations? The second-place winner in the 1995 Logie Medical Ethics Essay Contest discusses whether telling the truth is the proper course for a physician dealing with certain patients.