Reasserting that there are no certainties in medicine:
Montgomery tells us it is important to realize medicine is not a science. We imagine if it’s a science, its conclusions and recommendations are certain. They’re not, as any honest doctor would tell you.And curing ourselves of this false quest for an impossible certainty is step one toward having a medicine we can live with and manage.
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I can’t imagine too many scientists worth their salt that will tell you their conclusions are certain either. To say that medicine is not a science is pretty naive of what medicine encompasses. Now how medicine is practiced by most doctors is another story altogether. There is of course an over abundance of anecdotal motivations behind many treatment decisions.
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