Observation
On the limits of medicine — when all that can be done is done, and there's nothing left but to wait and see.
There’s a clip somewhere in YouTube, in which Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked: “What if you’re about to be hanged — executed, but all that you have left is your knowledge of science, but not faith. What would you do?”
There are times when science, and medicine in particular, somehow seemed to fail us.
We think of science (and medicine) as a library of answers to all the questions and problems we face in our lives. But it would be wrong to assume that every question has its definite answer.
Medicine is a work in progress. What we’ve read on our textbooks or journals or guidelines, are simply our best guess; they’re far from perfect. And those are the things we already know.
There are things we have yet to understand. What do we do with it? We give it a name. Idiopathic. Indeterminate.
So here we are; where — despite all our knowledge, and our best efforts, we have no idea what happened. All that can be done is done. And there’s nothing to do, but to wait and see.
Observation. Another term we invent to describe something we don’t understand.
Wake up soon, bro.