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When patients aren't truthful, misled doctors may give a wrong diagnosis or treatment. Bill Moore of Pacific Grove was barely in his 20s when he found out he had cholesterol trouble. ¶ This was bad news for Moore because his father had died of a heart attack at 45 and because, as he told his doctor, Moore was eating all the right stuff. ¶ The doctor prescribed cholesterol-lowering medication, and a subsequent test showed the drug was working very well. Too well. ¶ His doctor was very surprised, Moore says. 'I told him I must be unique. I must have a unique body composition.' But the truth was Moore had fed his doctor a false written record of his eating habits before beginning the drug -- reporting vegetables and salads that had never been on his menu, and not reporting all the hamburgers and pizzas that had. ¶ Only when he started on the cholesterol drug did he finally begin eating the way he'd been claiming