Should Doctors Tell The Truth By Joseph Collins

In Collins reading, “Should Doctors Tell the Truth?” there is an excusable argument on why should doctors lie to their patients. Joseph Collins who depends and claims doctors lying to their patients. As he states, “Were I on the witness stand...I should answer in the negative and appeal...for permission to qualify my answer” (Collins, pg.211). What he is saying is that no doctors are not obligated to tell the truth to their patients because sometimes the doctors need to know how to handle some situations and lying. Through out the reading he rephrases his thesis by saying “though few are willing to make the test, it widely held that if the truth were more generally told, it would make for world-welfare and human betterment. We shall probably