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Doctors can't pick and choose which risks we should be told about

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Patients are increasingly aware that medical choices are limited despite the plethora of information available that ought to inform our consent. This plays out most starkly in issues of organ donation and allocation. But when it comes to decision-making, the issue of what we should and...

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