TRUTH AND THE DYING
ing when you know that their condition is likely to prove fatal.' Mr. Cameron's article appeared to me to be intended to be a defence of this statement. Mr. Cameron now says I was wrong to attribute to him the view that nurses ought to tell patients when their condition is likely to prove fatal. But surely if you enjoin a nurse not to not tell (i.e. • deteive) a patient you enjoin her to ten- or is this too Aristotelian a reading of the Bishop's injunction ?
However I am glad Mr. Carheron now expresses more (to my mind) humane opinions; even though I can no longer see the point of his original article. It was rude of me to have used the word ' unprofes- sional '; but I expected an article by an academic philosopher as distinguished as he is to be better reasoned and less rhetorical.— Yours faithfully,
MAURICE CRANSTON
Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, S.W.1
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