Dr. Wendie Trubow shares four principles for her medical practice: any intervention strong enough to help can also harm, use the minimal effective dose, measure results with data, and accept that good decisions don't guarantee good outcomes.
Are there any downsides or risks to the protocols that you're doing with your clients and your doctors?
I have 4 rules of medicine that I beat into all my doctors. First rule of medicine, anything strong enough to help is strong enough to hurt. There is a downside to every decision we make in medicine. Your doctor's job is not to give you things that have no risks. They don't exist. All right. Your doctor's job is to try and give you as many benefits balanced against the lowest risks practical. And that's practical. Second rule, the proper dose of anything is just enough to do the job. Third rule, if you don't measure, you don't know, which is why I've spent so much money developing a test that will let me measure. And the fourth rule is the one I hate. You can do everything right and things can still go to hell.
That's true, I think, for life, not just medicine.