The anecdotes with finding situations where doctors make serious errors could be well counter-balanced with the cases where a misguided patient’s research effort turned up a solution that has an equally bad effect. It’s not at all clear that on the net, serious personal research into a case by a non-doctor is better than a decision of an average doctor. Especially considering that in the more important cases (assuming you recognize the importance), you can ask several doctors independently.
The anecdotes with finding situations where doctors make serious errors could be well counter-balanced with the cases where a misguided patient’s research effort turned up a solution that has an equally bad effect. It’s not at all clear that on the net, serious personal research into a case by a non-doctor is better than a decision of an average doctor. Especially considering that in the more important cases (assuming you recognize the importance), you can ask several doctors independently.