Back Then, That Was The Norm
https://www.iflscience.com/in-1961-90-percent-of-doctors-said-they-would-avoid-telling-their-patients-they-had-cancer-back-then-that-was-the-norm-84613
If it is incurable, I might agree --inform a close family member to help them prepare. Modern-day dementia, for example ...what good does it do to know?
> what good does it do to know?
I'm hoping that it starts following the cancer trajectory. There are some promising avenues, but no serious results yet. But for the first time, it seems like things might be starting to move on dementia.
The problem with dementia is that it is a much slower train than cancer, so identifying patients to test therapies on and then proving they work is much more difficult.
In the 90s, some doctors would ask the family members of a terminally ill patient if he/she should be kept alive or treatment changed to 'comfort.'