Woudn’t it be great if we simply knew what to do for any situation and just could execute a plan knowing that we’d get the results we want?
Sometimes, I think my patients are under that misconception. That, depending on what the problem is, there is one solution that will fix the problem.
 Well, that’s not how, medicine, or business, or life works.
 In medicine, we often will try a prescription to see how it goes. Sometimes it’s a simple solution, but other times, interactions with other therapies interfere, (the more the number of drugs, the geometrically proportionately the interactions increase), patients can have allergic reactions or untoward side effects, or the therapy simply isn’t getting the desired response.
 ”Take two aspirin and call me in the morning,” is a much maligned phrase from physicians. But it’s an accurate description of how medicine works. We try something, and wait and see. Sometimes the problem is self limiting and other times what wasn’t clear initially will become manifest to be recognized. As physicians we’re not afraid to try new prescriptions or therapies on our patients, but when it comes to us treating our own businesses, our practices, we’re not nearly as practical.
By taking a long look at our practice “symptoms,” we can attempt to isolate root causes from a list of differential diagnoses with regard to our businesses. Coming up with the first “solution” may be easy but if it doesn’t get the results we’re looking for, we should be no more afraid of using other Rx’s than we would changing the Rx of a patient. ”
Check the symptoms, write a Rx, assess the results. If the problem is not cleared up, try a new Rx. It might be we may be forced to settle for symptomatic relief rather than a “cure.” But by changing Rx, we may just get the cure we’re looking for.
Life, business, and medicine all work on the same principles. Don’t be afraid to change Rx.
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