johnathon korenek

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I did not have to trick patients into trusting me when I first met them. But the problem with medicine is that it is uncertain – doctors deal in percentages, and like the weather forecast, can only be wrong if they make a prediction with 100 per cent certainty, which they never do. We often hear the refrain ‘The doctors gave me six months to live, and here I am six years later’, when, almost certainly, the doctors had told the patient he or she might only live for another six months. As for the ones who did die within six months – we do not hear from them.
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
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