Dr. Robert Whitfield says doctors often can't explain what's happening in a patient's immune system because the science is still evolving. He argues that clinicians need to admit uncertainty and stay curious rather than pretend they have all the answers.
I think our immune system is so complex and so poorly understood that it's not surprising we just have very little to say to a patient about what's going on because we don't know what's going on. I'll be perfectly clear about it. I don't know.
Yeah.
And you usually will hear me say it, like I'll say it in an interview or I'll say it online. I'll say it right now. I don't know what's going on in every situation.
At least you recognize that it's happening. Oh yeah, they won't recognize or acknowledge, and I don't know if it's because they don't know, or I don't know why, but they don't recognize that something is happening.
Right. Yeah, I think that's the problem, is like you go to— like, you got to be curious. I think your point is like you have to be curious about what's going on. If you're not Um, that is the problem. Yeah, then you're not helping.
