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Apparently it was a common enough thing in the past to withhold diagnoses & other critical health information from the patient on the judgement of relatives & caregivers. It was enough of a thing to be common trope in mid-20C media (cf the movie Dark Victory)
Given how big a shift there was when "informed consent" came along (within my lifetime) I have to think this was a common cultural theme. Which: 
