title: Dialysis or death? Doctors should stop covering up for an inadequate health service.
abstract: Doctors who entered the National Health Service to practice medicine now find themselves forced to practise selection. It seems that patients are being lost at GP level. Surely the basis of a good relationship between doctor and patient relies on trust and trust is based on truth which should not be concealed from patients. And should any one dare decide the quality of life for another human being?
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D030881:Disclosure; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006295:Health Resources / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006436:Hemodialysis Units, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D018579:Patient Selection; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D040841:Resource Allocation; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D028761:Withholding Treatment