title: Medical ethics and truth telling in the case of androgen insensitivity syndrome.
abstract: Should a physician always tell the truth to a patient? Is biomedical ethics too "politically correct" in certain situations? The second-place winner in the 1995 Logie Medical Ethics Essay Contest discusses whether telling the truth is the proper course for a physician dealing with certain patients.
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Natarajan
mesh_terms: D013734:Androgen-Insensitivity Syndrome / Q000523:psychology; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014342:Truth Disclosure