Not sure the patient is always right but the docs are often wrong. Collaboration probably works best. The docs have more medical knowledge but the patient may know more about their particular condition. I recently went to a dentist with a broken tooth and he wanted to do a root canal not because their was any evidence it was infected but because he thought it might be and why not from his point of view. From mine I'd rather wait and see if it was - it wasn't. That kind of stuff seems quite common.