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Fauci Pleaded the Fifth (111 Times!)... Medicine Still Hasn’t Learned Its Lesson
Should patients always trust the experts, or should they ask more questions?This week on the Intellectual Medicine podcast, Dr. Stephen Petteruti reflects on the broader lessons that medicine can learn from the COVID-19 era. Using recent headlines surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci as a starting point, he explores larger questions about medical authority, patient autonomy, and the role of healthy skepticism in healthcare.Dr. Petteruti discusses how uncertainty is an unavoidable part of medicine and argues that clinicians should acknowledge the limits of what they know while empowering patients to…
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