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To the Editor: Perhaps the problems detailed in the article on patient advocacy by Weston and Lauria (Feb. 22 issue)¹ would not have occurred if the physicians involved had been more honest with the parents. The seriousness of the illness should have been impressed upon the parents by the physicians involved. The desire of the physicians to do something was the primary cause of all the subsequent social problems.

It is time for health care providers and the lay press to stop fostering unrealistic expectations about medical care in the minds of the public. Why were the parents not told . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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