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Should doctors be held liable for lying to their patients?

Asked by Dr_Dredd (10540points) April 29th, 2010

One of Oklahoma’s new anti-abortion laws prohibits pregnant women from seeking legal damages if physicians knowingly or negligently withheld important information or provided inaccurate information to them about their pregnancy, even if a doctor lied to a woman about a fetal abnormality.

What do you think? Should a doctor have legal protection to misinform or lie?

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