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▲ mindslight 6 hours ago

This would be a must easier pill to accept and pass on to others if doing so did not result in those same professionals obstructing you by claiming authority as "experts".

The other problem is that when you do try to engage with those professionals in technical terms, most are utterly unable or unwilling to communicate with you on that level. Trying to actually get the "informed" part of informed consent makes the level of revealed incompetence jump from maybe ~50% to 90%. Only very rarely do I find a doctor (or really any professional) willing to get technical, even as they ask me for approval about technical decisions!

The fundamental dynamic, as always, is they want to claim authority while disclaiming responsibility.