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There are three things at play here:
The moment you hire them, you give up agency. They decide what you need to know and what you don't. What's relevant and what isn't.
Suffice to say, I don't think these doctors are very good at their jobs. On the rare occasion I need a doctor, I avoid this lot.
They're convinced they gave you the complete picture. They didn't.
If something isn't important in their framework, it isn't important. Full stop.
This bites me in the ass a lot. Doctors telling patients not to strength train, not to lift heavy and to "just walk." Completely undervaluing muscle and what it does for your health. Waving off 1.5 g/kg of protein. You show them the science and get: "In my experience, these things don't work."
They are victims of their own limited knowledge base, experience and success.
And in India, we put doctors on a massive pedestal. So expertise quietly becomes infallibility. And infallibility becomes omniscience.
Are all doctors like this? Not at all. Some of my most consistent, thoughtful clients are doctors who took the time and energy to actually understand training and nutrition. And there are many like them.
There are patient, good doctors who walk you through trade-offs, risk-reward, odds, downsides, opportunity cost, alternative routes, the cost of doing nothing. All this in a way you can actually use. Who recognize when a non-medical person is processing information in good faith, with understanding and context.
To understand the doctors who pick fights instead, go read points 1, 2 and 3 again.