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84% of patients want to be told when they have a serious illness by doctors according to research just published in Chest- the official journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.
Of those 57% of patients preferred to be told on their own.
Acceptance of the disease is the first step. Second step is to focus on your recovery strategy. This view mirrors my great friend's Andy McGovern's view who has lived for years with motor neurone disease. Since accepting his disease, he has climbed mountains, wrote a book, and in every sense of the world is living a life less limiting.
(207 patients were involved in the study at Merlin Park Hospital in Galway, Ireland and their mean age was 63 years.)
Posted by Kevin Kelly at
December 2, 2005 09:31 PM