I've been REALLY fortunate to have an amazing GP who always looks out for me and goes above and beyond. He specifically asked to be linked to all the records for my various specialists during prostate cancer treatment and reads them.

I trust most of the specialists I see, but within limits. For example, my oncologist is ONLY concerned with cancer remission, my cardiologist is ONLY concerned with my circulatory system, etc. Having a GP that synthesizes this information for me and knows where I place quality of life vs. treatments and my risk tolerance is HUGE.

I trust ChatGPT in the sense that if I feed it a complicated medical study I don't understand it can summarize it fairly accurately.

I trust my support group in that the guys in it are accurately describing their own personal experiences. I realize mine may differ but it's a good place for general info.

I DO NOT trust anything written by pharmaceutical companies and find they greatly downplay side effects. For example, they will say "while on this drug, most men don't have side effect x ..." and then studies show that 40% of men have the side effect so, while what they say is TECHNICALLY true, it's misleading.