Patients need to know the pros and cons of every management/procedures. They need also to be involved in their care...it's their bodies, their lives...their choices.
A big factor though is the reliability of all the informations given to them. Neglected or omitted informations. Most times, doctors are only aware of what they've been fed, of the research-based results, that can be fake or real. There are fake scientific results out there and growing.
Like the Gershon therapy, a number of patients coming out to have been cured of cancer are not believed by medical practitioners for the lack of scientific data to prove it. There would be none or very little as no pharma will conduct something to the detriment of their business.
Implants are no longer there to save lives, for people to have quality of life. Corporations, medical practioners, private institutions are here now to make money. This is what we see and experience today. As for the consequences, acknowledging it means they've done wrong for the world to see. Even if the endpoint are diseases, death or destroyed lives. In contrast to what was the aim before a procedure.
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I agree with you. I feel that people need to also take responsibility in finding information to direct their choices. As you mentioned the questionable reliability of info given to patients, people really need to make sure that what is being done is really the best. The responsibility definitely doesn't lie solely on the HCPs.
And the fake studies are really a scary thing that is rising up. We all need discernment in every situation...
Sadly, there are still many who rest everything with their practitioners, nor want to get involved in the decision-making.
Learning of the presence of fake studies was very alarming. Discernment needs time too so we need to be diligent. Your research was very thorough.