Clinicians often withhold information about disease progression and prognosis for fear of destroying their patients’hopes. Hope is not a monolithic entity that lives ordies with the prospects for cure or recovery, but rather a process that unfolds as illness progresses, whether or not treatment is
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BRAD STUART
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