Clinical uncertainty is missing from medical training
“It still haunts me whether I prolonged his suffering or saved his life.”
The physician whispered those words, as if he had been carrying that sentence inside him for decades. I expected uncertainty in medicine. What I never imagined, though, was how long and how memorably physicians carried it.
Like many students, I came to medicine with the belief that progress meant getting closer to certainty. Having seen organ trafficking firsthand, I …
Clinical uncertainty is missing from medical training
