Suppose you always strive to tell the truth, but your doctor believes you're a liar. Does that mean you have a moral obligation to say you drink less than you actually do so that your doctor will come away knowing the truth?https://twitter.com/DavidJuurlink/status/1161605846775803905 …
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Replying to @beyerstein
He's not wrong, though. Patients almost always underestimate or understate how much they do things that are bad for their health and overestimate or overstate how much they do things that are good for their health.
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Replying to @gorskon @beyerstein
It's also usually not lying but more selective memory that leads patients to underreport the unhealthy things they do and to overreport the healthy.
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