That's the fun thing about medical school, you usually don't learn anything about public health! Instead you get blasted with four years of material, most of which you won't use in your specialty, and almost none of which covers public health, working with minority populations, or any other "trivial" topics
My experience with nurses is that they are much more reactionary than you would ever believe.
For the record, Fellows are doctors, they're just specializing. I remember working with a number of renal fellows in the hospital, pretty sure there was one or two that were practicing that decided to just further specialize since it's a massive jump in pay. Cardiologists could make like 500k a year at the hospital I worked at.
Nurses can and absolutely can be reactionary as hell, but if you word it the right way in my experience most agree that healthcare is a human right.
I saw 45 year old ER nurses lamenting the advent of Obamacare because it would just encourage the already inundated with homeless hospital to just be flooded with more homeless people. And the former military or active reserve nurses were the absolute worst psycopaths.
There's multiple things to this but one of them is definitely that the propaganda from our ruling class through the media has enough weight with so many people that it can override doctors own intuitions. The other is that being a doctor doesn't make one care more about a pandemic or whatever, it's just a job.
