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>> And my approach is really patient guided,
I'm surprised by how many times there actually is more
than one approach to a problem or to an illness.
I usually will lay out some options for the patient.
I have some kind of usually boundaries on things,
but I still am, I just think it's kind of neat.
That usually there's not just one book obvious full speed ahead approach.
There's usually time to consider more than one approach to an issue.
By knowing a patient better, we can usually, there's some patients who would prefer
to have a lot fewer tests, and some patients that are maybe lean toward more testing.
So it's helpful to understand something about the patient, some philosophy,
and the kind of their opinion about the health care system.
It's also really important when patients get really older, toward the end of life
to understand something about their philosophy of health care
and their approach to how aggressive we want to be.
Because it's easy nowadays for the patient to kind of get sucked
into the high-tech medical system and to have too many tests done.
So we're the quarterback that's in the right place
to hopefully make sure they have the Goldilocks approach, not too few tests
and not too many tests, but just right.