Going against advice vs taking risks

In my religion, it is expected upon us to ask for experts' opinion relating to matters that we are not sure about. For example, if we have a disease, we should ask advice from a certified doctor who knows about the disease. It will be harmful to us if we decide to follow the advice of someone who does not know much about the disease and cause further deterioration to our condition. Another example, when we are in doubt about a religious matter, we ask those who study the matter in and out. It will be utterly ignorant to follow a half-baked advice. If my car broke down, I would get a mechanic to have a look at it and not try to repair it myself. Coz that just screams complete stupidity.

This no brainer concept should apply to everyone. Unfortunately, a lot of people are claiming to be smarter everyday from googling, or internet surfing. They get an information from a website, and then call themselves as those who know. And then they go on to influence others to believe them.

One heartbreaking example I hear every time is home birth or natural birth with no medically trained staff attending a delivery. Yes, birth is a natural process and everyone should have the rights to decide to experience it as naturally as possible. But it should not be at the expense of someone's life.No mother experiences the same thing. No one has the same luck everytime.

All mothers should know that the risk of bleeding to death and other life-threatening conditions can result from trying a vaginal birth after a previous C-Section, let alone more than 1 operation. From years of research and evidence-based studies by obstetrics specialists all around the world, they have come to a unanimous decision to strongly advise against trial of vaginal birth after a history of 2 previous C-sections.

They speak from years of experience. They see so many deaths and morbidity before their eyes from complications that arise due to wrong decisions made by them and by patients. So they learned. Unfortunately, some people refuse to listen and learn from these mistakes. They fight to go against medical advice when all evidence show that they should not. They continue to fight because they think that they are right and they should be allowed to fight for something they believe in just because they want to. When nothing bad happens from their dangerous practice, they say that all these doctors are wrong and trying hard to medicalise every single thing. But when something goes wrong, they would just say that it is fated that way and to die is natural.