Department of Medicine

When doctors sugarcoat the truth, patients get shortchanged

Written by Washington Post | June 24, 2023

Too much information can be unhelpful and confusing, said Eric Campbell, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado and director of research at the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities. But should a doctor decide that medical choices are over a patient’s head so they shouldn’t be mentioned or that a patient is too fragile to handle difficult news?