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The secrets you shouldn’t keep from your doctor

Let’s be frank: When you go to see your personal doctor or stop at an urgent care for a quick visit, you probably don’t always tell the physician the whole truth and nothing but the truth. According to one major study, between 60 and 80 percent of US adults have reported they withheld at least one pertinent piece of medical information from a healthcare provider during a visit. And we do it for the most natural and human reasons. The most common explanations that patients gave for declining to disclose relevant information were not wanting to be lectured, not wanting to be judged for...