Often while examining my patient, I get confused how much to tell the patient about his disease, whether to advise investigations or not? Should I tell him the prognosis? Should I tell him that he is not having any disease? It happens more when I know that it is habit disorder or psychological ailment. Now a days another thing is happening regarding immunization of kids. More and more expensive vaccines are being put into the schedule copied from US?
Do we require them or not- no definite policy. Indian academy of Paediatrics also divided regarding the recommendations. We have tertiary care hospitals who will continue to put the old patient having multi-organ failure on various type of machines to prolong life citing legal hurdles. The doctors do not think it proper to tell the relatives about prognosis of these cases in clear terms. But when the terminally ill patient succumbs to…
