I think you might be failing to update generally enough here about how valuable it is for governments to.regulate the practice of medicine, in terms of directly benefitting people—who are, in general terms, overconfident about their competence to make decisions in complex domains they don’t understand.
Of course, this is not to say there are no harms from governments doing so, nor that they currently strike the right balance.
I think you might be failing to update generally enough here about how valuable it is for governments to.regulate the practice of medicine, in terms of directly benefitting people—who are, in general terms, overconfident about their competence to make decisions in complex domains they don’t understand.
Of course, this is not to say there are no harms from governments doing so, nor that they currently strike the right balance.