{"product_id":"getting-to-why-logic-in-medical-decision-making-paperback","title":"Getting to Why: Logic in Medical Decision-Making - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLauren Deville\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePractitioners treating chronic disease share a problem that cuts across every discipline: they have more diagnostic tools than ever, but no shared logic for sequencing intervention. A naturopathic physician, a functional medicine MD, and an integrative NP looking at the same patient will often reach for different treatments first - not because they disagree on the underlying science, but because none of their training gave them a decision hierarchy for \u003cem\u003ewhen\u003c\/em\u003e to intervene, only lists of \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e to consider.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGetting to Why: Logic in Medical Decision-Making\u003c\/em\u003e first challenges the reader to reconsider common medical assumptions that rest upon fallacious reasoning. From there, it gives practitioners of all specialties a decision framework for chronic disease that doesn't depend on already knowing the diagnosis. It assumes the reader already has a working knowledge of physiology and pathophysiology, and provides a heuristic for finding root cause and building a personalized treatment plan from there - rather than defaulting to standard-of-care algorithms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGetting to Why\u003c\/em\u003e is a clinical reasoning text built around the therapeutic order - an eight-level framework that sequences care from root-cause identification and removal through palliation. The therapeutic order reframes the clinical question from \"what should I do for this diagnosis\" to \"what does this patient's physiology need first, and why\" - treating the body as a self-regulating system to be supported in sequence, not a set of symptoms to be matched against a list of interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46529573879852,"sku":"9798182745277","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/eKN7tEF0ux9798182745277.webp?v=1793285460","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/getting-to-why-logic-in-medical-decision-making-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}