Abstract:All physicians are obliged to inform their patients about their disease and about course, purpose and risks of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Many physicians, however, try to avoid the dialogue with the patients particularly if disaggreable details are to be communicated. This is valid both for somatic medicine and for psychiatry. The openness of information in psychiatry depends on the patient's disease. Schizophrenic patients receive comprehensive information less frequently than patients suffering f… Show more
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