Mr. AAQ – I hear you, and I will leave the more educated here to respond to halacha, but if you don’t mind I would like to respond to your point.
Firstly, I’m not speaking to “my take” on this, this is the way halacha works. It isn’t a disagreement issue if we are meant to follow a rav. The disagreement may be on how we feel about the psak, but that does not determine the need to get one. And your choice of the word “chumra” indicates that you are seeing rules as options, or requirements as strungencies. That to me sounds like the pitfall of being nogea bdavar but I would prefer someone more learned speaks to that point.
Next, your bad pun… i get your point. I really do. Im still trying to convey that that is not your choice to make, that is merely your opinion on the choice (does that make sense? ) And you end with the rav not correcting you. I cannot pasken on his motives without knowing details, but I can think of at least three reasons why he might let it go. So you shouldn’t assume.
Regarding my doctor comment. Once again you rely too heavily on your assumptions of meaning (which i see as potentially connected to the above issue as well). People should ask their ONE rav and their ONE doctor. I made the comment with the intent of warding off a comeback like I got from another poster falsely insinuating that there is a small handful of the aforementioned who sit in a room wairing for people to come to them from far and near for that lone opinion. Meaning, there are many out there so do not think so many people are lying when they claim to each be following their own doctor’s advice.
(I hope that was clear enough to explain my point)
“Overwhelming majority” is not relevant here.
This is very hard to convey to people in fear but please understand that your frustration and pain in seeing someone make light of a health concern for halacha is no less, or maybe even yes less frustrating and painful as seeing people make light of halacha for a health concern. (Please don’t falsely apply that to other health situations. Halacha is very precise in their use of percentages)