I don't think I suggested that we become experts, just better informed consumers who ask more pointed questions and become more involved in the decision making process. At the end of the day it is your health and your body. Engage the expert to do what they do best which is to provide advice and guidance, but accept responsability for making the final decision.

My 75 year old mother in law doesn't ask questions of her doctor because "he's the doctor, and he knows best" which is both dangerous and a tad irresponsable given possible malpractice and the wide availability of information on the internet.

Pretending that the relationship between supplier and purchaser is something sacreligeous flies in the face of consumer behaviour exhibited in every other field of human behaviour. In my mind it's somewhat like arguing that Air Canada is morally obligated to sell you a ticket at the lowest possible price every time. As is frequently discussed here, sometimes price is only one element of the decision making process.

If you blindly accept whatever is presented to you without asking about other treatments or alternatives are available then you probably deserve to end up with the product sold by the salesman who last took your Dr out for the nicest dinner. {Okay, I don't really think that... }