Others are more aggressive, willing to accept a little risk in the hopes of better results. There is nothing wrong with such differences or with either bias. The only way to make appropriate choices is to gather the best information that you can. It is comforting to put your full trust and confidence into your physician. However, the ideal of the omniscient doctor and his command of a formidable medical support system is mostly a myth.
Doctors are busy people and more than that, they are human.
They can not stay on top of every development in their field nor the full spectrum of needs of all their patients all of the time. A patient faced with a serious illness is better served by assuming that he is largely on his own to negotiate the medical system and to find and get the best treatment available. Patients who shift all responsibility for the management of their illness to the doctor contribute to that doctor's already overwhelming burdens. Patients who look to doctors as the highly skilled professionals they are, and not as the all-knowing father figures that they are not, are helping themselves. Unfortunately, the medical establishment is accustomed to squeamish compliance.