Recently I learned of "fail first" or "step therapy" policies by insurance carriers.
This means that you've gotta try ineffective therapies that are cheaper until you can go for the real thing.
Policies and procedures also tie the hands of diagnostics. Dr. House and Doc Martin could never exist in real life because a gauntlet must be run.
Call your ISP for tech support when you know the diagnosis. They'll read you the script, and you'd better follow the script or you won't get a resolution. Restart your devices, destroy some data, bypass your firewall and AV, reset all your preferences to default.
This means that you've gotta try ineffective therapies that are cheaper until you can go for the real thing.
Policies and procedures also tie the hands of diagnostics. Dr. House and Doc Martin could never exist in real life because a gauntlet must be run.
Call your ISP for tech support when you know the diagnosis. They'll read you the script, and you'd better follow the script or you won't get a resolution. Restart your devices, destroy some data, bypass your firewall and AV, reset all your preferences to default.
Why should your PCP be any different?