by Carolyn Thomas  ♥  @HeartSisters

You know the term “hedging your bets”?  Basically, it’s defined by Oxford as “doing something to protect yourself against future problems.”   It turns out that when doctors are not 100 per cent sure of the medical diagnosis they are about to share with a patient, researchers who study “diagnostic uncertainty” suggest that these docs tend to start hedging.
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