It had nothing to do with medicine being a profession stuffed full of insufferably self-satisfied assholes who had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into an era where they were actually required to give a fuck about the patient or their family.

Oh come on, most of them are still there. Informed consent seems to be a phrase of arcane portent, perhaps Ancient Sumerian?- at least according to the regard it is shown by most doctors.