Making a completely shocking revealtition, a recently concluded survey has revealed that some doctors are not always entirely truthful with their patients.

It has been found that in excess of 50% of the doctors contacted during the course of the survey admitted that they now and then describe the prognosis patients in a manner they were aware was a bit too glowing. In addition, more than 20% of them claimed that they had not completely revealed a medical error for terror of getting sued. On the other hand, one out of every 10 of the doctors surveyed claimed that they had not disclosed a patient any information that was not factual in the last year.

However, the survey, which was carried out by the researchers from Massachusetts, has not disclosed why or what information was not shared as truth.

The reports of the study, which have been made available in the recent edition of the monthly journal Health Affairs, has further clarified that it requires an open interaction for patients for making them completely informed regarding every aspect of their health, in place of the “doctor-knows-best” paternalism of the past of medicines.

While expressing his opinion regarding the entire issue, the lead author of the study, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, said that, “I don’t think that physicians set out to be dishonest”. Dr. Lisa is the Director of Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and also a Professor at Harvard Medical School.

She further revealed that the untruths can possibly have been shared so as to provide a sense of belief and hope to patients as revealing truth in severe cases is not always the right way to go for a doctor.