On Keeping Bad Medical News from a Child Patient Darshak Sanghavi is a pediatrician and first-generation American who values honesty. But he remembers a time when he was torn between his conscience and his family culture, which was steeped in old country traditions.

On Keeping Bad Medical News from a Child Patient

On Keeping Bad Medical News from a Child Patient

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Darshak Sanghavi is a pediatrician and first-generation American who values honesty. But he remembers a time when he was torn between his conscience and his family culture, which was steeped in old country traditions.

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