It's such an interesting experience. You can go to 5 different medical doctors with the same problem and get 5 different opinions and walk out with various different prescriptions in hand and maybe 2 out of the 5 are correct....or maybe correct enough to address some of my concerns.
That's why when someone asks me about going to therapy - I say you might want to go to 2 or 3 therapists to see who you think is a better fit. They go but that could take months - I'm like yes, but what's the cost of going with the first one if you don't like them or trust they are good at what they do. And they say but how will I know....and I'm not in the medical profession!
Bronce, the five-doctors-five-opinions problem is exactly the article. Confidence of delivery is doing most of the selection work when the patient has no calibration tool for clinical quality. Your therapy framing is the right one: the cost of the first mismatch is paid in time and trust, and both are hard to recover. The piece Thursday goes into the decision framework for exactly this kind of incomplete-information choice.
It's such an interesting experience. You can go to 5 different medical doctors with the same problem and get 5 different opinions and walk out with various different prescriptions in hand and maybe 2 out of the 5 are correct....or maybe correct enough to address some of my concerns.
That's why when someone asks me about going to therapy - I say you might want to go to 2 or 3 therapists to see who you think is a better fit. They go but that could take months - I'm like yes, but what's the cost of going with the first one if you don't like them or trust they are good at what they do. And they say but how will I know....and I'm not in the medical profession!
Bronce, the five-doctors-five-opinions problem is exactly the article. Confidence of delivery is doing most of the selection work when the patient has no calibration tool for clinical quality. Your therapy framing is the right one: the cost of the first mismatch is paid in time and trust, and both are hard to recover. The piece Thursday goes into the decision framework for exactly this kind of incomplete-information choice.