Heroes Not Zombies

I’m a bit of sceptic about putting collated data ahead of individual experience when it comes to finding what is best for this patient today.

So, I was very taken by this sentence from a Japanese doctor’s journal. This is a surgeon who has been the only doctor on a small Japanese island since 1978.

Initially, the locals were wary of this strange young doctor coming to their island. How would he win their trust? Show them some graphs of randomised controlled trials and run night classes on calculating odds ratios?

Nope.

I would have no choice but to wait and to rely on the power of positive results to build a relationship of trust here

This is what you call believing reality…..when time and again the lived experience steadily builds your confidence.