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Should doctors tell patients the truth? Indeed, asks Dr. Charles C. Lund in the current Annals of Internal Medicine, "Is it possible to convey the 'truth' about a serious matter to a patient?" The Boston cancer specialist's own answer: "Blunt 'truth' is not good [but] avoidance of the 'truth...
...doctor abruptly announces, "This is cancer," his patients will react in many ways. Eight out of ten, says Dr. Lund, might consent to surgery but "of these half might never forgive the doctor for his brutality." One patient out of ten might "believe erroneously that cancer is never cured and therefore decide to have no treatment. The other might be so upset mentally that [he] leaves the doctor and goes to a charlatan in whose hands all hope of cure will be lost...
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...last of the Progressives met in a frame hall at Portage, Wis., to disband the party, return to the G.O.P. Young Bob was facing another election-and he could win only as a Republican. There were still men who wanted to go defiantly on. Said Scandinavian-born Farmer Ole Lund: "When we discard a piece of machinery on the farm we think twice before we hitch on to it again." But there was no choice. The Democrats could offer no hope of victory. Quietly the delegates voted to join up with the Republicans, and went home...
Last week Father Matthiesen had reached the $2,000 mark in his personal church lund; others' contributions had added $1,000. It was not much money, but the church would be a modest one: simple." "possibly in early American style - very