The world is full of websites and books about what your doctor doesn’t tell you. This familiar anxiety masks a truth, which is that there are likely to be some things that your doctor doesn’t actually know. Medical school tries to cover everything, from the life cycle of the anopheles mosquito to the names of the 27 bones in the hand to the emergency treatment of a haemorrhage. While it is just about possible to retain this information for exams – the corridors beforehand are full of sweating students chanting mnemonics – it is inevitable that some of the knowledge will go missing later on.
世界上充斥著各種講述有關哪些事醫生不會告訴你的網站和書籍。這種常見的焦慮掩蓋了一項事實，那就是有些事情其實醫生可能也不知道。醫學院試圖教授所有醫學知識，從按蚊的生命週期、人手27塊骨骼的名稱到大出血的緊急處理方法。儘管學生們能夠勉強記住這些知識點以應付考試（考試前的走廊裏滿是滿頭大汗背書的學生），但過後遺忘部分知識是不可避免的。