Michael D. Lockshin, director of the Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Diseases at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, writes in his book The Prince at the Ruined Tower: Time, Uncertainty, and Chronic Illness, “I now accept that uncertainty occupies a substantial part of the world in which my patients, my students, and I live. We do not need to hide it from view. It is not cause for fright. Uncertainty is just another tool that we can learn to use.”
