Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road - New York Times

Nowadays, we find ourselves with plenty of medical information at our fingertips. Yet all this information has become too much for many people. Ordinary people do not have the medical training or background to necessarily know how to make sense of all the information that is available, and may not know what to do with it. Meanwhile, doctors are increasingly asking patients to choose their own treatment options, without necessarily preparing them adequately for making these decisions. The question is whether this is better than having doctors tell us what to do and making all the decisions for us, the way they used to. It’s a tough one to answer.