> But the complete failure to consider the possibility that I might also be intelligent, educated, and able to understand the applicable research just because m

> But the complete failure to consider the possibility that I might also be intelligent, educated, and able to understand the applicable research just because my day job isn't in medicine immediately disqualifies a doctor for me. It’s not that doctors think you unintelligent, but you are not a doctor. It doesn’t matter how many YouTube videos you’ve watched on a subject or how many hours you’ve spent reading about your current symptoms to convince yourself that your special intellect justifies doctors paying closer attention to your opinion, if you haven’t gone through the 7 years of education and passed the exams, then you are not a doctor and you will not be treated as one. Patients should be more accepting of this fact. It does not make sense in general to have doctors ask their patients to self-diagnose, even if their patients are intelligent, it doesn’t add value. The problem is that every gambler will tell a statistician that actually their odds are abnormally high. And it’s true, if you pull 5 cards from a deck, the odds of getting exactly the cards you drew are incredibly small… no matter what you draw, so when you try to post rationalize events that have already occurred you even feel that statistics will back up your claim, but that’s not how it works, you can’t do that, just like patients being correct occasionally does not mean they should be treated as doctors because they don’t have the required education and experience.