It's not just that. They're restricted by hospitals that employ them, and often by government regulations besides.
It has been a big hurdle with things like "right to try", and with medical journals being quite incestuous with regards to peer reviews, it ends up being a self perpetuating problem where nothing really new happens because it's the "credible" peers that end up being bought off even more than the doctors themselves.
I don't envy their position, but they are well compensated and as you say they sold their souls.
I imagine it's easy to justify it as helping the many, at the cost of the few. I imagine it's even easier to reject any conflicting information outright, thereby denying themselves the conscious guilt that would likely come with acknowledging it.
The process is definitely broken and is, like many things, in need of a rework.
It's not just that. They're restricted by hospitals that employ them, and often by government regulations besides.
It has been a big hurdle with things like "right to try", and with medical journals being quite incestuous with regards to peer reviews, it ends up being a self perpetuating problem where nothing really new happens because it's the "credible" peers that end up being bought off even more than the doctors themselves.
I don't envy their position, but they are well compensated and as you say they sold their souls.
I imagine it's easy to justify it as helping the many, at the cost of the few. I imagine it's even easier to reject any conflicting information outright, thereby denying themselves the conscious guilt that would likely come with acknowledging it.
The process is definitely broken and is, like many things, in need of a rework.