Uncertainty

“Medicine inhabits an inexact territory with terrifying hazards, and the best way to avoid them is to demand honesty from everyone.  The first truth that we must accept is that human beings are not perfect…  We must lose the fear that we’ll be blamed if [our patients] find fault” (Margaret Mccartney, BMJ)

The discipline of medicine concerns the manipulation of knowledge under uncertainty (Siddharta Mukherjee).