{"id":41467,"date":"2026-06-17T01:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/80-of-patients-lie-to-doctors\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:22:13","slug":"80-of-patients-lie-to-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/80-of-patients-lie-to-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"80% of patients lie to doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2340-1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>No one is perfect, but none of us want our doctors to understand that.<\/p>\n<p>From 60% to 80% of patients lie to their doctors about the exercise they do, how much alcohol they consume, what they eat, their smoking or drug use, and anything else that makes them look bad.<\/p>\n<p>While a third of patients don&#8217;t ask for additional clarification when they don&#8217;t understand something. or do not agree with the doctor&#8217;s recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>These results were seen after a study was carried out at the University of Utah Health, where about five thousand Americans were surveyed about what they talk about with doctors.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, the biggest reason for lies is that they are impressed by the opinion of doctors and do not want to listen to lectures from them.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display advertisements (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one is perfect, but none of us want our doctors to understand that. From 60% to 80% of patients lie to their doctors about the exercise they do, how much alcohol they consume, what they eat, their smoking or drug use, and anything else that makes them look bad. While a third of patients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"views":12,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41469,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467\/revisions\/41469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}