Thanks Helene, it's a very interesting point of view and one that requires patients to be open-minded too. I think I'd feel okay if I heard my doctor say, "I don't know...yet." This speaks to your point that your doctor is showing a commitment to finding the RIGHT diagnosis!
Protectors of the establishment are defensive about new hypotheses and insist on painting disease and health in black-and-white, deterministic terms. Patient suffering is deemed nonexistent in order to uphold outdated models of disease. In particular, a stark failure to update one’s priors is evident.
Thanks Helene, it's a very interesting point of view and one that requires patients to be open-minded too. I think I'd feel okay if I heard my doctor say, "I don't know...yet." This speaks to your point that your doctor is showing a commitment to finding the RIGHT diagnosis!
Protectors of the establishment are defensive about new hypotheses and insist on painting disease and health in black-and-white, deterministic terms. Patient suffering is deemed nonexistent in order to uphold outdated models of disease. In particular, a stark failure to update one’s priors is evident.