How many treatment options should I give a patient for a big case?
Three as a rule: a best, a very good, and a good. That structure gives the patient room to choose without drowning them in choices, and it keeps you from quietly steering everyone to the cheapest thing. Occasionally a fourth, acceptable option makes sense, but rarely, and usually that’s just a holding pattern while something else gets sorted out. Before you present any of them, say out loud that you only recommend what you’d recommend to your own family and a close friend. That one sentence puts the patient’s interests level with yours, sometimes above. Then for each option cover the benefits, the losses you’re minimizing, and tie it back to why they came in. Three real options, honestly framed, beats a single take-it-or-leave-it plan every time.
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