“…Practicing medicine in austere-environments teaches us to be comfortable with limited data, erroneous information, evolving diagnoses, and providing care without black-and-white answers ( 6 ). Battlefield medicine and CCM both require “trusting our gut.” In fact, normalizing uncertainty, in order to become comfortable with the unknown, and learning to tolerate risk are central tenets of the newly proposed critical care philosophy called, “zentesivism” ( 7 ).…”