Telling the truth to Asian patients in the hospital setting.

摘要: Full disclosure of health information to patients is considered important in Western culture, but may be less appropriate for from other cultures, particularly when conveying news about a diagnosis with poor prognosis. This issue becoming New Zealand, given the rapidly increasing ethnic diversity presenting our hospitals. paper explores culturally ways breaking bad different ethnicities hospital setting, emphasis on identifying locus decision-making within families and decisionmaking end-of-life care. Given that most rapid population growth presently occurring Asian community, attention focussed sensitive their families. medicine taught practised using model full disclosure. 1 able make decisions treatment informed fully prior giving consent treatment. However, cultures.