What are the takeaway implications of that for consumers of medicine? Understand statistics? Don't be first to try new tech? Whenever I try to second-guess my d

What are the takeaway implications of that for consumers of medicine? Understand statistics? Don't be first to try new tech? Whenever I try to second-guess my doctors I become hopeless about how hard it is to get them to state, and/or to find for myself, sources for their conclusions. Also, a world in which nobody was willing to be first to try new tech seems like it would probably be worse for everybody.