NEJM November 3, 2016
“At once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement . . . when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
— John Keats, December 18171
These words penned by John Keats, who was a physician as well as a poet, remind us of the human struggle to live in a gray-scale space where uncertainty is rife — a space that is neither black nor white. Our quest for certainty is central to human psychology, however, and it both guides and misguides us.
Although physicians are rationally aware when uncertainty exists, the culture of medicine evinces a deep-rooted unwillingness to acknowledge and embrace it. Embodied...
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