title: [Prognosis disclosure to the dying patient].
abstract: Different, partly contrary opinions exist as to the difficult and important problem, how far the physician may or must go in informing the patient and his nearest relatives about an infaust prognosis. The author makes his own position which was under consideration in the working team "Ethical Problems" of the GDR Society of Internal Medicine subject of a discussion.
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D014342:Truth Disclosure
vernacular_title: Prognoseeröffnung gegenüber Todkranken.