GUIDE

A GUIDE is a person or thing that advises, shows the way, or helps someone form an opinion or make a decision. To GUIDE is to show the way or facilitate learning or decision-making.

Don’t confuse GUIDES with RULES.  Many times in our work which is complex we have turned GUIDES into RULES. When I discover this I often repeat the classic line from Yoda: “You must unlearn what you have learned.”

I would rather be a GUIDE than a RULER.

For the world DynaMed provides a GUIDE through the complex maze of clinical decision-making where the facts are approximations with varying degrees of certainty that are difficult to recognize, the expectations are multiperspective and multinational, and the values and preferences are individualized but the reference materials are usually not.

Where can you be a GUIDE? What have you learned that can help show the way for others? Whether directly interactive and socially engaging, or through reflection and writing, or some AMBIVERTED combination, how can you help develop the GUIDE?