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Doctors will often change their recommendation if patients express different priorities than the doctor initially assumed. Some people's priorities are no surge

• chii 3y ago
  > Some people's priorities are no surgery unless absolutely necessary. which is a good general rule to go by - surgery is not without dangers. The doctor's role, imho, is to firstly explain all of the available options (pros, cons, etc). Once the patient understands all of the options, the doctor can recommend one of them, and explain why the option is good. The patient needs to evaluate the other options as well, and think about whether the doctor's recommendation is sound, and what assumptions they might've made (may be unknowingly). The patient is not, and should not be, a passive party to medical treatment.
• lynx23 3y ago
  "no surgery unless absolutely necessary" is becoming the default around here, because the number of hospital-acquired infections is skyrocketing in the last years. While there were absolutely no anecdotes before 2017, the number of people infected in the hospital in my circles has exploded since then. People are talking about it, and realising that going to the hospital has a real risk of making things even worse.