What was interesting about this article was that even if a physician tells a patient the truth, a patient may not interpret that information the way it was supposed to be interpreted. A person with anxiety may make it something it’s not and someone with cancer may think that just because they have cancer, they will die. People don’t always understand the physiological functioning of their body. Another thing Lipkin mentions is that some people cannot handle the full truth, because it may be even more detrimental to their health. I find this interesting because, if you don’t know you have an illness and you are never told, are your chances of recovering greater? Say you are ill and your doctor just tells you that you need to change your diet,
