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[RC] Changing our minds part 2 - Bruce Weary DC
Bring in the lawyers
A good defence against change is to assert that
you will get sued if you start doing something new or quit an old,
favourite practice.
Blame patients
Claim that you’d like to practise differently
but patients won’t like it. Everyone will understand why you still give monthly
injections of vitamin B-12 for anaemia and antibiotics
for colds if you tell them your patients don’t want you to stop.
Show how much you’ve changed
Point to all the new drugs you use as a result of information solely provided
by pharmaceutical representatives. After all, it’s more important to feel
up to date than to actually be up to date.
Pull rank
When a case manager calls, a nurse or pharmacist makes a suggestion, or a
patient brings in information they’ve downloaded, make sure to ignore it.
Be sure to say, “When did you get your medical degree?”
Simply refuse
When presented by threatening information, say what was muttered after a
presentation for continuing medical education: “I wouldn’t believe this information
even if it were true.”
Total control
Using these time honoured techniques will allow
you to practise with the assurance that little
thinking will be required that might distract you from the matter in hand—taking
care of patients as you see fit—and will keep you in total control without
any nagging feelings that there might be a better way to
practise.
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