[Correspondence] 25 years after Intoxicated by My Illness: challenges for medical humanities

Communicating with patients at the end of life is regarded as a difficult task, and speaking openly about death is often avoided.1,2 Around 50% of patients are informed about their diagnosis and prognosis in many European countries. Silence conspiracies are fairly common3—defined as the agreement between health professionals and relatives or carers to hide from the patient information related to their clinical condition.

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