If our doctors had started saying 'I don't know' to stroke survivors 50 years ago, type A survivors would have fired them and maybe the doctors would have solved a lot of the stroke rehab problems. But no, they decided to lie and tell survivors whatever garbage came to their heads.
A great blog posting from
Exploring The Leadership Potential of Three Little Words: Applying “I Don’t Know” To Medicine
It took me cornering a nationally known cardiologist into saying these words one about my husband's condition. And then taking it a step farther to have my husband diagnosed with his rare form of cancer which throws him into hypo and hypertensive crisis, heart attacks, blackouts, seizures, and a stroke.
ReplyDeleteHe hated to admit he wasn't god, but he did. Unfortunately for my husband, it was too late to prevent the mets from spreading throughout his body. A simple "I don't know" might have saved his life and he wouldn't be terminal today.. Now the same specialist is quick to say it.
Yes if more doctors say it, the more it would spurn others to find out why.