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by TinyBig 4921 days ago
People increasingly do ask these sorts of questions of lawyers and especially doctors. It's an inevitable march based on access to information. Informed customers are a good thing; it forces professionals to stay on top of their game to survive and enables transparency as you mentioned. Some number of micromanaging customers are also inevitable; perhaps the goal is to bring in enough business to fire the bad customers?