To compare attitudes of medical and law students toward informing a cancer patient about diagnosis and prognosis and to examine whether differences are related to different convictions about benefit or harm of information. Setting and design: Anonymous questionnaires were distributed to convenience samples of students at the University of Geneva containing four vignettes describing a cancer patient who wishes, or alternatively, who does not wish to be told the truth.
Unité de Droit Médical et d'Ethique Clinique, Institut Universitaire de Médecine Légale, 9 avenue de Champel, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. Bernice.Elger@hcuge.ch
