Theme: Shared Decision-Making

As physicians, ‘we should always be leaving room for the unexpected.’

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As physicians, ‘we should always be leaving room for the unexpected.’

A palliative care physician notes the peril of ‘mashing up population level statistics with individual outcomes.’ Clinicians must carry and express both what is typical and expected and also leave room to be wrong, for the unexpected to happen.

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As physicians, ‘we should always be leaving room for the unexpected.’

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