If you look at pages 110-111, you'll find a discussion about the controversy surrounding the question of whether a physician always has an obligation to tell a patient the truth.  What are your thoughts on the issue?  Do you think that there are times when it may be acceptable to withhold information from a patient?  Here's another thing to think about.  Last class, we briefly discussed two commonly invoked principles in bioethics: the principle of beneficence and the principle of autonomy.  How might these two principles come into conflict here?

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