Navigating uncertainty with Dr Nathalia Costa

This podcast episode covers areas such as what different aspect of clinical uncertainty we come across in practice.

The podcast also discusses how clinicians may neglect uncertainty or attend to it as well as:

• What uncertainty is and allude to the different ways and taxonomies used to describe it
• Different sources of uncertainty and use the ambiguous nature of low back pain as an exemplar
• The ways that we as clinicians might neglect uncertainty or attend to it
• How we often seek to reduce uncertainty through the use of clinical reasoning or the application of evidence for examples through clinical guidelines
• How an intolerance to uncertainty may prompt binary thinking and cause us to retreat to the comfort of the biomedical model and biomedical thinking
• How uncertainty with decision making is imbued with emotions – on both patient and clinician’s part
• How clinicians may emphasise uncertainty to patients, intentionally or unintentionally and the resulting impact that this might have on the balance of power within the relationship
• Reflecting on ways that clinicians may better navigate uncertainty