When I faced a second surgery for my terrible triad injury, my surgeon detailed every risk, his words laced with caution. It wasn’t him speaking—it was the system, safeguarding itself against lawsuits. I paused and asked: “As a human to another human, would you do this?” He nodded. That unspoken truth said, “Yes, I can help.”
This experience reveals a broken system that fuels fear over trust, protecting itself instead of empowering patients. How many lives are limited because fear silences confidence?
Change starts with asking better questions—the kind that liberate, not trap. If the system won’t, we must.
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