Practice Higher
Quality Medicine

Let’s revisit the bell-shaped curve described in "How Praxis Works":

As you can see, most medical errors do not occur with rare cases. This is not only due to the mathematics of the bell curve—rare patients are uncommon, and thus rare mistakes are also uncommon—but more importantly, when faced with a rare case, you become alert. You get excited, consult with colleagues, consider hospital admission, or at the very least, ask the patient to return in a few days while you research the issue. No—the majority of common errors happen right here…

These are not errors of ignorance—at least not most of them. They are egregious human errors, where you’ve done something correctly hundreds of times before, but this time you forget to prescribe a medication you know should have been ordered, check a crucial finding, ask an essential question, or order an important lab test you’ve routinely ordered in the past.

But now, you can use your own chart the way a pilot uses a checklist—to ensure nothing is forgotten or overlooked, that every “i” is dotted and every “t” is crossed. If you've done it correctly before, you won't make the same mistake today. And if you spot an error from the past and correct it now, you'll never make that mistake again. As a result, your random errors and errors of omission—the most egregious and most common in medicine—progressively decrease, along with your professional stress, allowing you to practice exceptional medicine… always.

The more you chart with Praxis, the fewer random errors you make, the higher the quality of your documentation, and the better the medicine you practice.

As we like to say: "Doing what you wrote is far better medicine, far easier medicine, and far, far faster medicine than writing what you did."