People should trust the doctors and stop treating themselves

[Rachel Adams]

Should I use "doctors" or "the doctors" if I am speaking in a general sense?

"People should trust the doctors and stop treating themselves."

 

[Tarheel]

Say: "People should trust doctors and stop treating themselves."

I'm too subtle, aren't I?

 

[Barque]

Alternatively if they have a doctor whose advice they don't always take: People should trust their doctor and stop treating themselves.

 

[5jj]

Alternatively, if they have a doctor whose advice they don't always take: People should trust their doctors and stop treating themselves.

That also works, in the way that They blew their noses does.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'd end with "... and stop self-diagnosing and self-medicating".