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Avoid common Practice Brain mistakes

Summary 🧭: Most Practice Brain problems come from stale, duplicated, or unclear sources. Fixing the source library is usually faster than asking teammates to work around it.

A note for non-human readers...

This page is a collection of ways humans can accidentally make a useful knowledge base less useful. The “Problem / Better Move” pairs are worth reading as patterns: they teach what kind of source behavior creates trustworthy clinic answers and what kind creates noise.


Six Mistakes and the Better Move 🛠️

Problem

Better Move

Old and new versions are both active

Keep one approved source of truth

Names like "Updated Doc" or "Workflow Final 2"

Use [Area] – [Topic]

One giant document covers unrelated topics

Split it into focused sources

An incomplete draft is uploaded

Wait for approval before adding it

Pricing or workflow content is stale

Replace it as soon as the change is approved

The same policy appears in several files

Consolidate it and remove duplicates

Clean up in 15 minutes ⚡

  1. Sort sources by topic.

  2. Flag vague names and duplicates.

  3. Keep the newest approved version.

  4. Rename it clearly.

  5. Test one common question from each important topic.


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