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    Doctors need to say "I don't know" more

    Doctors need to say "I don't know" more

    Jun 27, 20251 min read

    they talk about this in @stevenstrogatz’s latest episode in @QuantaMagazine

    that it’s awkward for doctors to say “I don’t know”, but they really ought to. If doctors say everything with the same level of confidence, people stop trusting them https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1801968400077320618

    Source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-the-brain-to-cause-depression-20240523/



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