Prognosis Essay. Health, Medicine, Nursing Assignment. (Essay Sample)

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Introduction
While honesty is a significant virtue in Western medicine, its concealment is a common practice in Asian culture. The concealment of grave prognosis is both culturally meditated and family-centered because an illness is a shared community affair. In the majority of the cases, honesty is discouraged because it will extinguish any hope that the patient has left. However, the lack to inform the patient about his/her true state of health is linked to the futile expectation of a treatment plan. This paper examines whether health workers in Asia should respect the culture and avoid truth-telling and whether dishonesty in such environment constitutes an ethical breach.