Article inspiration
Article inspiration from Arabella L. Simpkin and Richard M. Schwartzstein, M.D.
Too often, we focus on transforming a patient’s gray-scale narrative into a black-and-white diagnosis that can be neatly categorized and labeled. The unintended consequence— an obsession with finding the right answer, at the risk of oversimplifying the richly iterative and evolutionary nature of clinical reasoning — is the very antithesis of humanistic, individualized patient-centered care. We believe that a shift toward the acknowledgment and acceptance of uncertainty is essential— for us as physicians, for our patients, and for our health care system as a whole.
