I remember talking to my sister on the phone before I opened the email that had those results

and I was just crying. Uncertainty is everywhere in medicine. Like what if I'm not allergic to my

implant? Like what is happening to me? But we don't always know what to do with it. I will never forget

one orthopedist who, when I didn't improve on the basis of his diagnosis and treatment,

said to me, you know, patients like you are really unsatisfying for doctors.

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When we talk about in medicine, we use a shared decision-making model.

We're sharing all the information and come to a decision together.

It's not really how it works.

When people come in with kind of vague symptomatology and gaps in the history,

I would just go

straight Joe and say, now tell me what's really wrong with you. And out it would come.

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