A short YouTube talk by Robert Whitfield MD ("Understanding Your Care Options: A Deeper Look") emphasizing that people often accept their community's standard of care without knowing alternatives or potential harms. The speaker encourages asking about other approaches, notes that individual responses to care are unpredictable, and advises taking action if one is responding poorly.
So that's a really, that's a really big clarification. I'm glad that you brought that up because folks, if they're, if they're only in their own community and they see that this is how everybody is getting their care, they just assume that is the standard. They don't even know to ask what else could be or could there be some harm or some side effects of this. And so when they end up meeting somebody like me and I'm questioning that initial approach, it's not that I'm dissing the community they were in, I'm just saying, hey, you might not have understood that there were other ways to think about this or approach this or there's certain level of risk potentially involved and we're all very individual and no one can can know ahead of time how you're going to respond to any one of these things. But certainly if you are responding, you should do something about it.
