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Why medical uncertainty can feel better than diagnosis

I've been putting off calling to schedule my cardiac catheterization for three weeks because once I know what's wrong I can't unknow it. The waiting feels safer than the truth.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sometimes the space between suspicion and confirmation becomes the last place where hope can live unexamined.

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