In certain domains, I absolutely can and will do this, because “someone else” has knowledge and experience that I don’t and could not conveniently acquire.
Honestly? By going to the list of doctors that my health insurance will pay for, or some other method of semi-randomly choosing among licensed professionals that I hope doesn’t anti-correlate with the quality of their advice. There are probably better ways, but I don’t know what they are offhand. ::shrug::
If you were accused of a crime and intended to plead not guilty, how would you choose a defense attorney, assuming you weren’t going to use a public defender?
So you trust yourself to decide how to select a doctor; you trust your decision procedure, which you have chosen.
If you were accused of a crime and intended to plead not guilty, how would you choose a defense attorney, assuming you weren’t going to use a public defender?
I’d ask trusted friends for recommendations, because I trust myself to know whom to ask, and how to evaluate their advice.
And how do you choose who the “someone else” is?
Honestly? By going to the list of doctors that my health insurance will pay for, or some other method of semi-randomly choosing among licensed professionals that I hope doesn’t anti-correlate with the quality of their advice. There are probably better ways, but I don’t know what they are offhand. ::shrug::
If you were accused of a crime and intended to plead not guilty, how would you choose a defense attorney, assuming you weren’t going to use a public defender?
So you trust yourself to decide how to select a doctor; you trust your decision procedure, which you have chosen.
I’d ask trusted friends for recommendations, because I trust myself to know whom to ask, and how to evaluate their advice.