How much should a very sick hospital patient be told? If diagnosis is late and it is known that treatment is not likely to be successful what should the doctor do about it? Should he reveal all or is the man in the bed already aware, deep down, of the seriousness of his condition and doesn't want it put into words? Doesn't want to hear the worst.
This sort of dilemma faces the hospital doctor almost every day. Yet he is paid less than many a factory worker and is at everyone's beck and call twenty-four hours a day. Why does he do it? What does he get out of it?