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Problem prawdy w komunikacji z pacjentem o złym rokowaniu. Punkt widzenia bioetyka i teologa

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The patient, who is very ill, is confronted with overwhelming diagnosis for their state of health at a certain point of life. It would seem that “the problem of truth” raised in this context concerns the problem whether to pass the information about a negative prognosis or not. It turns out, however, that the point is more about realizing the truth together and communicating on the basis of the truth. The information, which is to reach the terminal patient, is not supposed to kill him or her after all, but to encourage him or her to fiht for his or her life. What are the ways of the mobilization and what is the role of truth in this situation? – that is the essence of the eponymous issue. In order to perform the task, the nature of the truth and “telling the truth” – in the sense of truthfulness – in theology and bioeth ics was examined fist. The point was to discover the fundamental importance of truth for the human life. Next, attention was put on the good of the patient, thus the patient as a person, whose dignity and good are a measure of the undertaken activities, also in the scope of “revealing the truth.” Only with those two planes, you could face the problem of fiding the truth in a particularly diffiult position of the patient with poor prognosis.