TELLING THE TRUTH

Are doctors and nurses bound by just the same constraints as everyone else in regard to honesty? What, anyway, does honesty require? Telling no lies? Avoiding interntional deception by whatever means? From a utilitarian standpoint lying would seem to be on the same footing as other forms of intentional deception: yielding the same consequences. But utilitarianim fails to explain the wrongness of lying. Doctors and nurse, like everyone else, have a prima facie duty not to lie-but again like everyone else, they are not duty-bound to avoid intentional deception, lying apart; except where it would involve a breach of trust.