Why does decision fatigue matter when I am treatment planning big cases? Because your judgment degrades as the day wears on, and treatment planning is exactly the kind of dense, high-stakes thinking that suffers first. By late afternoon or evening you are running on fumes, and that is when shortcuts and sloppy decisions creep into plans your patients are betting their mouths and their money on. So protect that work. Group your treatment planning into the early part of the day and batch it together so you stay in planning mode instead of switching gears all day long. While you are [...]