Do you see a solution outside of accreditation for the problems of sub-par surgeons? Informed Consent is essential, but it also brings out a lot of shitty dynamics of marketplace capitalism to our issues. For example, there is a well known top surgeon who leaves bad results and who has passed the surgery off to a new doctor day of. But his patients have signed away their legal rights to class action. How can he be stopped?

As it is, gatekeeping and diagnosis doesn’t protect us from any of the
dynamics of marketplace capitalism, it just makes those things slower
and more expensive. We can fight the effects of capitalism by collective
action, by making truthful information about shitty doctors easy to find, by organizing against those who screw us over.

It starts by informing each other and NEVER EVER signing away our right to class action. Informed Consent should be about empowering us. If it does the opposite, it’s not informed consent. It’s just another chain.

Beyond that, for a specific doctor there’s a wide variety of methods, from filing a complaint to trying to put his story in the media to protesting outside his clinic to smashing all his windows. It depends on who is prepared to take action and what methods they find appropriate.