Name: The courage to live with radical uncertainty
Uploaded: 2020-07-01T14:53:57Z
Duration: 15 min 43 s
Description: When your future is uncertain, how do you keep moving forward? In this courageous talk, oncologist and cancer survivor Shekinah Elmore shares how she embraced life after a rare genetic diagnosis -- and explains why she believes doctors have a duty to help their patients learn to live with radical uncertainty.

When your future is uncertain, how do you keep moving forward? In this courageous talk, oncologist and cancer survivor Shekinah Elmore shares how she embraced life after a rare genetic diagnosis -- and explains why she believes doctors have a duty to help their patients learn to live with radical uncertainty.

The courage to live with radical uncertainty

Radical uncertainty became a way of life after a young woman faced multiple cancers and a rare genetic mutation before age 30. Even while weak from chemotherapy, she pursued medical school and later, a life and family she feared might never be possible. True healing, she argues, means focusing not only on survival, but also on living and loving despite fear. Doctors and patients must rewrite the story of illness to center courage, agency, and the fullness of life.