Extract Paternalism has a bad name in modern medicine. And it is of course requisite for physicians to take the wishes and biases of patients strongly into consideration when arriving at any treatment recommendation. However, in this era of the availability of increasingly so-called "minimally invasive" procedural therapies, patients will, in the absence of guidance, unfailingly choose the procedure that is, often inaccurately, labelled "less invasive."
Extract Paternalism has a bad name in modern medicine. And it is of course requisite for physicians to take the wishes and biases of patients strongly into consideration when arriving at any treatment recommendation. However, in this era of the availability of increasingly so-called "minimally invasive" procedural therapies, patients will, in the absence of guidance, unfailingly choose the procedure that is, often inaccurately, labelled "less invasive."