'I had always been taught in Germany to trust my doctor, and obey what he said,' she explained.

Perhaps the most important advice that many doctors would give is to trust your doctor.

"I trusted my doctor when he said he could do this for me," says Daniels, who eventually settled a lawsuit against her doctor.

All the same, our situation comes down to a choice: Whose expertise do we trust more, that of the Enterprise's engineer, or its doctor?

A: Basically a woman needs to be able to really trust her doctor.

The notion that you can't trust your own doctor but you can trust the entire profession is a dangerous leap of faith.

If you trust your doctor, there's no reason you shouldn't approach him or her about a sleep problem and decide on the next step together.

Warn you not to trust your doctor.

Of course, trusting her doctor my mother agreed to have the infusion in early 2010.

"You're raised to trust your minister, your policeman and your doctor," she said.