De la science à l'ouverture clinique : gérer l'incertitude dans la relation de soin

Uncertainty can be seen negatively, like a sort of millstone round the neck of medicine amounted to pure science. Within the bounds of a clinical approach including science and humaneness, it can be seen positively, just like an opportunity to transform diagnostic, treatment and prognostic uncertainty into a challenge: to give to the patient an information considered as a word able to take care of him. The last option is developed in the following lines written from a lecture given at Paris on “clinics of uncertainty” (2011/03/24).