I mean it.
What if you could do something that would make it more likely for your doctor to diagnose you correctly, and get you on your way with the correct treatment sooner?
You can.
Give the Doc a lollipop.
Seriously - Give your doctor a compliment, a tiny piece of candy, something to make the doc happy in the moment he/she sees you.
That's what researchers did and the results were impressive. They gave doctors a patient summary to read over and diagnose. They handed one group of doctors a wrapped piece of candy before the test, not to be eaten right then, just to save for later whenever the doc wanted to eat it.
The other group got nothing - just the case summary.
The doctors who were given a piece of candy knew the right diagnosis twice as fast as the "no candy" group. The "candy docs" were also less likely to get stuck thinking it was one diagnosis and be unwilling to consider other options. They didn't feel anchored by their first assumption. The candy docs were more willing to keep options open and search for the right diagnosis, rather than just try to prove their first instinct correct. And they found the right answer TWICE as fast!
This little study re-affirms what we already know. People do better work when they are happy. So instead of focusing on the deficits and problems and faults of your doctors, your kids school teachers, your mechanic, your grocery store checker, etc... Make them happy and they'll do better work.
Better for you and better for them.
Give the doc a lollipop, it's as simple as that.
(study quoted in The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, page 47)
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