— LESSONS 3 OF 13
Choosing the Right Lab at the Right Time
Which panel answers which question, and what to run when a client can only run three.
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What this lesson covers
This lesson teaches you to choose testing based on the clinical question you are trying to answer—not simply because a lab is available, familiar, or commonly used. You will learn to think about what each major functional panel can clarify, when the result would change your plan, and when testing is unlikely to provide actionable information.
Where it fits in a case
Lab selection comes after you have built a hypothesis from the intake and begun confirming it through real-time data. Testing should clarify direction, influence the plan, or help determine what needs to happen next. The right lab ordered at the wrong time can still produce a confusing or distorted picture.
— HELPFUL RESOURCES
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The First 30 Days Framework — how to structure a complex case before testing or supplements. The First 30 Days -->
— WHEN YOU ARE READY
These thirteen lessons are the pieces.
The class is the order.
The Missing Piece is an on-demand class on how to sequence any case
— where each of these assessments and labs belongs, and what comes first.
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