Mark Lewis: Medicine is, in part, well-intentioned artifice

Mark Lewis shared a post on X:

“Medicine is, in part, well-intentioned artifice.

You have to start each patient encounter without betraying the details of the last: professionally poker-faced.

It’s about confidentiality, but it’s also about compartmentalizing tragedy to treat triumph and disaster just the same.”

Source: Mark Lewis/X

Mark A. Lewis is the Director of Gastrointestinal Oncology at Intermountain Healthcare in Utah, the Co-Chair of adolescent & young adult (AYA) oncology in the SWOG cooperative group, and the Vice President of American Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Support. Dr. Lewis is also a well-known patient advocate and social media influencer.