Most people lie to their doctor at some point. With the vaping illness, lying to doctors can make the difference between life and death.
found that 60% to 80% of the 4,510 adults surveyed have withheld key information from their doctorThe most common reasons for withholding these details included not wanting to be judged or lectured, not wanting to hear how harmful their behavior is and embarrassment.
"Each individual patient might have reasons why they don't want it known they're vaping and specifically what they're vaping," said Dr. Ram Koppaka, a medical officer at the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases who is working on the outbreak response.
"Clinicians should be aware there could be this reluctance and to make sure that as they're evaluating patients and asking about their habits that they should do so in a very nonjudgmental, but thorough, way," Koppacka said.treated a man in his 20s for EVALI who repeatedly denied vaping THC until a drug test came back positive. The patient claimed he had vaped CBD, the nonintoxicating compound in cannabis.
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