Narrative reviews Coping with uncertainty in clinical practice: a narrative review Ian A Scott 1 , Jenny A Doust 2 , Gerben B Keijzers3, Katharine A Wallis1 I n the words of renowned American surgeon, writer and public Summary health researcher Dr Atul...
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Narrative reviews Coping with uncertainty in clinical practice: a narrative review Ian A Scott 1 , Jenny A Doust 2 , Gerben B Keijzers3, Katharine A Wallis1 I n the words of renowned American surgeon, writer and public Summary health researcher Dr Atul Gawande, “The core predicament of • Clinicians must make decisions amid the uncertainty that is medicine —the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, ubiquitous to clinical practice. being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays • Uncertainty in clinical practice can assume many forms the bills they run up so vexing —is uncertainty … Medicine’s depending on its source, such as insufficient personal knowledge ground state is uncertainty. And wisdom —for both the patients or scientific evidence, limited practical understanding or and doctors —is defined by how one copes with it”.1 competence, challenging interpersonal relationships, and complexity and ambiguity in clinical encounters. The ever- increasing n
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