As you would not be buying medical paternalism which was so dominant in earlier times, you may argue against it by pointing recent emphasis on informed consent, patient/customer satisfaction, self-control and medical ethics.
But I think this notion is still quite relevant especially in terms of professional healthcare services. However the point is what should be actually deceived.
Of course, the health practitioner and the patient/customer should build mutual understanding to achieve the best results so this is not the case. Then how about their common enemies? Undesirable health conditions and the causes of them are what we should deal with deception.
Why with deception? Because when professional interventions are called for specific health conditions, they are already beyond human's natural coping mechanisms against physical, mental and social conditions. We have to deceive the agents causing implications to neutralise them and we also have to deceive our own defence responses against them to prevent overreaction or to revert irresponsiveness.
In fact, all medical interventions are outright criminal acts if administered by a person without credentials.
Like the enemy we fight against in war, the cause of our health problems are merciless to us. So we fight against them based on deception.
The English texts of Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' are from The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Art of War, by Sun Zu
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