Why More Doctors Should Embrace the Words “I Don’t Know”
The best thing for patients and their care is to admit you don’t know everything.

BY DR. SANDRA GELBARD

JANUARY 9, 2018

As a doctor, it is unnerving to confront an ailment that you don’t immediately know how to conquer. All those years of training, all those hours of study — and yet at some point, every doctor is confronted by one terrifying prospect: you will never know everything. When that happens, you have two options. Tell the patient the truth, however uncomfortable that might make you feel, or try to come up with an answer that “possibly” captures the diagnosis.

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Dear RM Agents and Readers,

The understanding that I came to years ago was it was over their heads. Knew I was sick, knew it was bad; but also, knew I would have to wait for science to catch up. Although I suspected that someone was creating new diseases; those in the healing part of things would be last to get it.

This suspicion of disease creation went through the roof when I overheard a doctor explaining to another doctor that several of the new patients he had seen he suspected of having one of those new diseases.

Many Blessings,
CrystalRiver