Medicine is not an exact science

December 19, 2007

Despite what some patients and lawyers say, the only guarantee in medicine is that nothing is guaranteed. Nothing is ever 100%, and this is not communicated clearly enough by many physicians.



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1 Anonymous December 19, 2007 at 10:23 pm

Can someone point me to where a patient or a lawyer has said that medicine has 100% guarantee?

Why do you make stuff up Kevin?

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