You’d think, after years of training, they might have picked up a little something called collaboration, but alas—here we are, left trying to assemble a cohesive treatment plan from the world’s most disjointed game of “he said, she said.”

And of course you, the patient, must now become a part-time researcher, part-time project manager, and full-time life-or-death decision-maker. Because clearly, a medical degree is optional if you’ve got Google and a notepad.

So yes—study like your life depends on it. Because it does. Apparently, the only person with a vested interest in keeping you alive and informed... is you.