apples and oranges

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i had a recent experience where i called my mentor and solicited his advice. his advice was totally inappropriate, and i wondered why. then it came to me-- his advice was inappropriate because his experience and my experience regarding the issue of concern, were completely different. i had a personel problem, and his approach to it was very different from mine, simple because he has never owned his practice, whereas i do. conclusion: listserve members are essentially outliers from traditional medical practice. even so, there is still quite a difference in how we do it, ranging from granola to gritty. perhaps if we more objectively defined our practices and circumstances, we might have a better frame of reference through which to compare ourselves to each other. that way, when joe blow talks about xyz, jane doe can say, yes, that makes sense, or no, that's whatever, and vice versa.

if we define our practice parameters and circumstances into a matrix, then we can see where we are. for example, how much debt does one have, procedures done, if any, age, family, how many patients a day, admit to hospital, # of staff, full-time, part-time, let's just objectively define as much as we can all of the factors which color our practice. various members have volunteered information, and we have had a couple of polls, nonetheless, i think it would be helpful to further delineate who's where, since no one is exactly alike. perhaps gary could develop the matrix with a series of ranges for different circumstances. LL

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