If you tend to stretch the truth while answering your doctor on questions related to exercise or diet, you have company. Some people lie to their doctors to avoid being judged, while others feel simply too embarrassed to tell the truth or just do not want to be lectured about how bad certain behaviours are, suggests new research.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost people want their doctor to think highly of them,\u201d said the study\u2019s senior author Angela Fagerlin from University of Utah in the US.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re worried about being pigeonholed as someone who doesn\u2019t make good decisions,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Insights into the doctor-patient relationship came from an online survey of two populations. One survey captured responses from 2,011 participants who averaged 36 years old. The second was administered to 2,499 participants who were 61 on average.<\/p>\n
About 60 to 80% of people surveyed were not forthcoming with their doctors about information that could be relevant to their health, according to the study published online in the journal JAMA Network Open.<\/p>\n
Besides fibbing about diet and exercise, more than a third of respondents did not speak up when they disagreed with their doctor\u2019s recommendation. Another common scenario was failing to admit they did not understand their clinician\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n
In both surveys, people who identified themselves as female, were younger, and self-reported as being in poor health were more likely to report having failed to disclose medically relevant information to their clinician.<\/p>\n
The trouble with a patient\u2019s dishonesty is that doctors cannot offer accurate medical advice when they don\u2019t have all the facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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