By saying 'trusting blindly' I meant 'dismissing possibility of incorrect diagnosis and applying prescribed procedure withought weighting the risk'.
So, if GP gave diagnosis and informed about the risks and outlined other diagnosis that are less probable based on his experience, and the patient weighted the risk and decided to go with the procedure without taking 2nd opinion, that in my opinion would not be 'trusting blindly'
You can skip 2nd or 3rd opinion, nobody denies you the right to do that. Still, you should not deny others the right to have 2nd or third opinion, especially since you yourself see high probability of receiving different diagnosis.
> That’s alarming because life expectancy has stagnated in the United States and declined in the early 2020s, O’Brian said.
I wonder if that is due to listening to our doctors and not taking 2nd or 3rd opinion. I was asking many doctors to diagnoze my illness, and although all of them said my body is ill, they were giving different, sometimes even contradicting directions. My health is more valuable than trust to doctor, or to the system- everyone can make mistake and trusting blindly is not good for our health. Same effect as rejecting all opinions.