Of course, no adult child withhold medical information from parent without the consent and cooperation of the primary source of that information, the physician. So, if the clinician is firmly convinced that this patient desires more accurate information than she has been receiving, than after discussing with the daughter all aspects, obligations, and potential consequences associated with the case, and after gathering all available evidences of the patient’s desire for information (especially specific forms of information ), the clinician should confer with the patient’s physician. One approach the clinician might recommend in dealing with this situation was described some years ago by Benjamin Freedman as “offering truth”. Freedman (1993) described cases of cancer patients whose diagnoses and/or prognoses had been withheld from them due to family clams of cultural traditions or for reasons of “benevolent deception.” In his analysis, these cases represent conflicts between the physician’s obligation to respect the patient’s right to know about their disease process ( but not a duty to know ), on the one hand, and on the other hand, the obligation to respect the family cultural traditions and values. The solution, as he sees it, is too compromise by finding out exactly what the patient really wants to know and then to provide (only) that information. This involves first asking casual but leading questions of the patient to discern what he or she already knows and what additional information is desired, so that whatever flow of medical information occurs is initiated by the patient’s desire for that information. What this requires, of course, is very careful listening, especially for expressions of what the patient really does not care to hear or hear about. But Freedman sees it as a way to satisfy both the moral obligation of veracity the physician has toward the patient and the background assumptions held by the family about what is good or bad for the patient to hear.