Dr. Jen Gunter

And I think one of the greatest harms that we do when we're talking about health care in general is we conflate acute care and chronic care.

And we make everything seem like it should be acute care, that you should have a fix in the office today.

But there's only if we have acute care and we have chronic care.

And it's not always an easy sort of pill to swallow.

Of course, I wanted something to make my son better like that, which parent doesn't.

But also following bad advice after bad advice is a lot worse than doing no thing.

Yeah, I think we are.

I think that we love absolutes.

We love definitives.

And the problem is nuance doesn't play.

And so it doesn't get that same attention.

And I think that

It can be a hard message, but that's, you know, I want the truth.

When we can't be definitive, we should be.

When we can't be, we should be honest about that.

When the data's of varying quality, we should be honest about that.

I always think about the principles of informed consent.

And if somebody's told you something's definitive and it's not, and you then make a decision, you haven't had informed consent.

You've been misled, right?

As a surgeon, if I tell someone, there's a 0% risk of complications with this surgery,