If you’re ordering massive lab panels because you don’t want to be wrong, you’re not practicing clinical thinking — you’re practicing avoidance.

Dr. Z is joined by Lorri, MSN, CRNP, FMACP, to unpack how functional medicine drifted into defensive over-testing — and how FM 2.0 brings practitioners back to decisive, patient-centered care.

Episode summary

• Why “more data” often creates less direction

• How FM 1.0 imported protocol-thinking from traditional medicine

• When labs clarify care — and when they delay it

• How to triage testing without being reckless

• The difference between being thorough and being effective

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