Reminds me of the time I was taking a first aid course and we were doing simulation runs. I was assessing a possible heart attack patient and was talking on the phone with a 911 dispatcher. I was still within earshot of the patient, he immediately sat up and told me I had just killed him because he would have had a heart attack after hearing that diagnosis if he didn't have one already.
This hospital/doctor was lucky that the patient resisted the nocebo effect.
http://gma.yahoo.com/stroke-patient-hears-doctors-discuss-organ-donation-190645629.html
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