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A physician’s reflections with certainty in medicine [PODCAST]

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“Lacking a supreme being in which to place our faith, my wife and I decided to make the most difficult decision of our lives and discontinue life support. I still wonder if we made the right decision, question whether fear made us give up too early, and these chronic doubts cut with the acuity of scalpels. But I also know that certainty is a fading flame in a failing body, and in a godless universe, sometimes a ‘best guess’ is all you have to go on.”

Mukund Gnanadesikan is a psychiatrist.

He shares his story and discusses his KevinMD article, “Certainty is a fading flame in a failing body.”

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