Emma Levine
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 14 Sep
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And that seems quite painful.
Absolutely.
It's very, very complicated given that the son requests that this information be kept private.
And you're right, it is his prerogative.
I think...
The complicated part, though, is how long that uncertainty goes on, right, after his passing.
And I assume, right, the intentions were if we can keep the mother positive and thinking this is nothing, then that might have been certainly the right thing.
And perhaps she, you know, passes away without ever having a doubt and ever kind of grappling with what's going on.
But as it, you know—
unfolds, it seems like there might've been a time to reveal before the end.
Absolutely.
And I think there are all kinds of interesting and complicated intersections once we start thinking about honesty and deception and culture, because in a lot of collectivist cultures in particular, there's definitely different norms about what we share in terms of illness, where actually the whole family might know, but they would keep an aging parent, the patient, in the dark because they believe knowing, let's say, that you have cancer could do harm in and of itself.
But that kind of specific model of how we deal with hope and benevolence and deception in medicine is different than how collectivist cultures might deal with deception in other contexts.
For example, my PhD student, amazing PhD student, Yana Kim, and I, with some colleagues, have some research looking at
critical feedback and honesty in both the U.S.
and China.
And we actually find consistent with what you said on responsibilities and duties and shared knowledge that in China, people are much more willing to give critical feedback than in the U.S.
because we kind of have a shared understanding of what the norms are and where we should be performing.
what is lacking, and we share that with each other.
Whereas in the U.S., it's like, you do you, you know?
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