Audacity: A Clinical Practice Theory

<p>Josh and Cody unpack this clinical practice theory of Audacity. </p><p><br></p><p>Cody posted a few months, this topic and here is what he said in the post.</p><p><br></p><p>Audacity is having the balls to make a decision, when you know you need to make it, with only your thought processes and clinical judgement to defend you.<br>Why, because blindly following a protocol that was not written for the exact situation you are in… is stupid. That is reckless and careless. Why? Because if you merely find the title of a protocol that “matches” the complaint you are dealing with, you are not collecting dots. You are forcing the patient into a box they may not belong in. In so doing, you doom them to suffer treatments from a recipe that does not even fit their problem.<br>You are a clinician. You have to develop the situation and develop a gestalt or an impression.<br>When you have to defend yourself. This is how you do it.<br>“Here is the picture I made with the dots I collected. That is what drove the decision.” —&gt; this avoids outcome bias. When people understand HOW you made the decision they tend to focus a lot less on the RESULT of the decision.<br>You highlight and defend the thought process, NOT the result. You don’t control the result, you only control your responses to the information you gathered.<br>You also cannot judge YOURSELF by the outcome. You hold the mirror up to the integrity of your process, how well you crafted a solution, and how well it was executed.</p>