Patient Notification and Cancer in Russia and the Soviet Union

[Brian Hayden]

Dear SEELANGers,

I've heard from a few different sources that in the Soviet Union doctors
sometimes (often? almost always?) would not notify the patient if they
found cancer. Was this official policy or a professional custom? Did it
apply only to cancer, or to other diseases that would likely end up being
fatal? What was the exact rationale behind / philosophical underpinning of
this move?

Sincerely,

Brian Hayden

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