title: The reluctant oracle. What is a physician to say when a dying patient asks how much time is left?
authors.forename: Charles R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D014342:Truth Disclosure