And you say, "" If you were me, Doc, what would you do? "" And the doc says, "" But I'm not you. "" And the result is — we call it "" patient autonomy, "" which makes it sound like a good thing, but it really is a shifting of the burden and the responsibility for decision-making from somebody who knows something — namely, the doctor — to somebody who knows nothing and is almost certainly sick and thus not in the best shape to be making decisions — namely, the patient.