Ego has no place in medicine, and that's all this is. Patients should be encouraged to responsibly seek information related to their care so they can participate in it. To me, that means educating people on how to conduct nonprofessional research (if it's something they're doing or want to do).

Discouraging people from participating in their own care is evil and antithetical to my idea of good medicine. Healthcare professionals should be guides, not dictators.