We like to look at ourselves as doctors and our clients as the patients. In our practice, we often find our clients (patients) in pain regarding their IT systems. Like a doctor, we are often asked to write a prescription that will make our clients feel better immediately. And as that doctor, we respond saying it would be malpractice to prescribe an IT fix without first performing a full physical, which in our world would be a Network Assesment and Total Cost of Ownership Analysis.