1 Patient. 2 Doctors. 2 Different Opinions
Medicine is a science and an art, and this means that doctors can have vastly different recommendations about how to treat a condition. This is the situation Brigid faced when she was admitted with a wildly abnormal heart rhythm. Whose advice did she follow? How did she decide?
Key Takeaway: Know the WHY
- Record conversations with your doctors, PAs, and nurses practitioners – especially if you are in a situation where you are seeing multiple providers and feeling overwhelmed.
- Articulate your priorities. They can be financial, social, physical, cultural, spiritual. Only YOU can do this because priorities are personal.
- Do your homework when facing a medical decision instead of getting paralyzed by choices. Have your questions ready and demand to know the WHY behind each answer.
Links
10-10-10 Rule for Decision-Making was developed by Suzy Welch. Here is a video of Welch explaining this process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu-Rj2xdhyM
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