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Can Benevolent Deception Ever Be Ethically Justified In The Context Of Terminal Illness? Honesty from health professionals is of paramount importance to most patients within the context of terminal illness as false information contributes to a further loss of patient control in addition to existing frustrations due to the sense of powerlessness at the hands of any disease. Therefore it is perplexing that the requirement for physician honesty within the medical profession has been overlooked in previous medical oaths and codes of ethics. Perhaps this is due to potential conflicts between truth telling and beneficence according to Hippocrates, who pioneered the theory that patient's interests are of supreme importance in medical ethics and emphasised that as doctors were to be 'given dangerous knowledge and therefore had to swear to use it only for good.' However since the days of Hippocrates many moral philosophers have suggested moral rules and theories to which...

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