It should go without saying that we can cheerlead for the emergence of effective treatments, but actual treatment decisions should be made by a doctor.
> actual treatment decisions should be made by a doctor.
Medical advice is given by doctors and other health professionals.
Treatment decisions are made by patients, those entrusted by patients to make decisions, or parents, guardians, or custodians who make decisions on behalf of patients.
I take your point, but prescriptions need to be made by doctors, and that is the main point here.
I actually have more nuanced views on this. Doctors are not gods, and there are situations where patients have better medical knowledge than the doctor on an important issue. But based on what I've seen so far (including confidently spread misinformation on HN) I strongly suspect that numerically these cases are far outweighed by people with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. That's all am cautioning here.
