Dr. Gabriel Scally:

I absolutely do. The thing that illustrated that for me, and I recounted or at least touched on it in my first report, was at one of the early meetings with the women and their relatives. Two young women came in and sat beside each other and discovered they knew each other. They were from the same area. They were both talking about how the non-disclosure had affected them and they had lost confidence in their clinician. They were both, independently, thinking of shifting to the other woman's clinician. They told that story and it was the only humorous part of that entire meeting. Those women found it humorous but it was also tragic because they had lost confidence in their clinicians. If one has a serious illness, like cervical cancer, one really wants to have confidence in one's clinician more than anything else. The non-disclosure had a devastating effect on many women.