Don’t ask me to lie
“I’ll get a call from a daughter who says, ‘Don’t tell my dad I called you, but you need to know he’s having chest pains again.’ Now I’m not supposed to know, but I do know, which is bad for everyone.
I want to sit down and say, ‘John, your daughter says you’re having symptoms that you’re not telling me about.’ I don’t like those kinds of secrets.” —Vincent Bufalino, MD, senior vice president of cardiovascular services for Advocate Health Care in Chicago.
