If a patient is unfortunate enough to have cancer, the first thought of the patient’s family is how to conceal the patient, and they will whisper to me, “Doctor, the patient doesn’t know anything, so don’t tell him/her that it is cancer, otherwise they won’t be able to bear it and refuse treatment. Of course, the initial intention is good, it is all love, worrying that the patient will not be able to bear the shock and will collapse. Usually, the patient is reassured by the “good faith lie” that it is an ulcer or a benign tumor. In fact, patients really need this “good faith lie”, I think: not necessarily. It is often counterproductive. 1. It is futile to conceal. Patients are basically adults. Whether or not they are educated, literate or illiterate. You can’t hide it, unless the patient himself wants to hide it from his family. The patient’s own discomfort, their own symptoms, coupled with a variety of continuous examination, basically determine what the disease is probably. In the clinic, many patients, when they communicate with me privately, actually know what the disease is from the beginning, and their families carefully conceal it, so they cooperate and pretend not to know. 2, concealment is harmful. The family’s caution, careful care, pretend to relax, but let the patient feel that the disease is very serious, as if to their own rhythm of the send-off. Undoubtedly, it really puts psychological pressure on the patient, and even really resists treatment. This deliberate concealment on both sides makes the patient and the family very tired and distraught. How about, according to the patient’s own psychological quality and personality characteristics, there are methods and techniques to gradually inform the patient’s condition, this bad news can also let the doctor to properly inform. 3, concealment is sometimes cruel. As an adult, have the right to know their own condition, treatment. Patients can make their own decisions about how to go about their treatment. How to decide major decisions about their own treatment. In actual clinical practice, many patients are dominated by their family members, to treat or not to treat, and how to treat. (Except, of course, for those patients who cannot or will not decide for themselves. Put yourself in their shoes and think, if it were you, would you want to be decided by others. If you think about it, you can see how cruel this well-intentioned lie is). So, if you really love the patient, you have to understand the patient’s true thoughts, understand, support, go into the patient’s heart and face it together with him/her, without the need for extra care and simple piles of material things. If the patient knows his/her condition and perceives from his/her heart that his/her family will always be with him/her to face everything, he/she will face everything openly inside and actively cooperate with the treatment, even death is not that scary. If, on the contrary, one hides, love can turn into harm.