On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 02:42:23 +0100, George Myszka wrote:
>What amazes me is the horror which the intrinsic uncertainty of medical
>care is producing in the press and subsequently the public.
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>Perhaps it's time we admitted a lack of perfection and that the public
>is mature enough to accept that. Its when we promise otherwise and are
>found out that there is an outcry, and rightly so I feel.
I often say to my patients that the sum total of what we *do not* know
in medicine and disease far exceeds the sum total of what we *do* know.
You are right. It is time to tell the public the truth about medicine.
Watching P D James' 'A Certain Justice' the other day, the barrister
who was getting away with murder remarked: "our legal system is human.
That is why it is fallable. All that we can hope for is a certain
justice".
To paraphrase: medicine is fallable. All that we can hope for is a
certain alleivation.
Ahmad
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