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How Cancer Doctors Failed Her | Hannah Fry

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

CHAPTER

The Uncertainty of Medicine

I think that the idea that you would have 15 minutes for somebody who, you know, I like I'd been in that moment, right? Like I had cervical cancer myself. And it's like when the floor of your world has fallen out from underneath you and you are so frightened and so unsure about what path you're going to take. Here's the challenge. You have 15 minutes with a person you don't know. You need to figure out what's wrong with them. The system kind of ends up falling there and faltering. That was like the beautiful explanation of the uncertainty of medicine. He says doctors' inability to explain this stuff makes him nauseous.

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