The pandemic has made it really clear to me that trend to have patients make their own health care decisions with advice from us, is well intentioned but harmful.
A great many people *don't realise* they have no idea how to decide wisely.
This unfortunate citizen thinks that this graph is what they should use to decide whether to have a vaccine.
the doctor has a choice of explaining about RCTs versus irrelevant 3d colour graphs, telescoping into a few minutes what it took years to grasp, or just sigh and move on.
When I get on a plane, I have paid for a pilot to have spent a very long time studying how best to fly a plane.
Even if I prefer him to fly lower so I "get less x-rays", or over the land "so I don't have a risk of drowning", I don't barge in and tweak the steering wheel myself.