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“Listen to me, and pass it on to all the doctors and nurses and everyone around here: You’re not to tell Franklin the name of his disease and you’re not to tell him it’s fatal.”

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Forman, E.N., Ladd, R.E. (1991). Telling the Child. In: Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9104-3_7

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