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How well do you know the “Chaotic” <\/span>decision journey <\/span>of your patients?<\/span><\/h2>\n

You have probably wondered what processes bring patients to your clinic and which mechanisms influence their decision to choose you for their initial medical consultation, rather than any other doctor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When a customer starts the decision-making process for a purchase, he\/she doesn’t take a straight line that takes a right to what satisfies the needs but instead enters a loop where many other considerations are at play.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even plastic surgery patients are not exempt from this mechanism; they go through a confusing and chaotic process before deciding to proceed with the procedure. The erratic search for information that we all perform before making any purchase now has a name: Messy Middle<\/strong>. <\/span>Google coined the term to describe that what happens between the trigger, and the buying decision isn’t always linear.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe way people make decisions is messy \u2014 and it\u2019s only getting messier. Still, there are a few things we know about purchase behavior. What is less clear however, is how people process all of the information and choices they discover along the way. And what is critical, what we set out to understand with this new research, is how that process influences what people ultimately decide to buy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

How does behavioural<\/span> science<\/span> explain the messy middle?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Cognitive science has proposed two mental models that would underlie the messy middle.<\/span><\/p>\n

We know that patients look for information about concerns, procedures, brands, doctors and reviews and then weigh all the options. This mechanism can be summarised in two steps. <\/span><\/p>\n