To make her believe doctor lies to her that she has a birth mark in the part of the body only known to her husband.
Dolly had just come to the study to suggest that the doctor lie down.
The doctor lied with his expression no better than with words.
But there was no point; the doctor was not lying.
The doctor has lied ever since Hippocrates, and in most of the world, truth-telling is still considered bad medicine.
She suspected the doctor was lying about her chances for recovery.
A doctor can properly refuse to say anything about a patient, but ethical doctors do not lie.
"No, I meant, which doctors are lying to you?"
"What have your doctors been lying to you about?"
They wonder why the doctor would lie about it.