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Doctors do not tell the truth very often in a situation when a person's life is in danger. A patient treated at hospital and affected with a severe illness may be not informed by doctors about his/her health. Doctors refuse to tell their patients the whole truth, because they often think it is essential not to frighten their patients. In consequence when a patient's health deteriorates not telling him/her the truth may be even more shocking and depressing. Moreover, it may bring about a nervous breakdown if he/she realises that he/she suffers from an incurable illness. So again this is the reason that lying is immoral and therefore it should be condemned.