Back when my ex and I were together, his best friend was in the middle of med school. He attended a fairly prestigious school, and most of his family were doctors as well. Out of curiosity, I asked how many classes he’d been required to take about things like nutrition. He had taken ONE CLASS, and it was both an elective and not very good (info was biased, outdated, or just plain wrong due to curriculum that heavily emphasized information circulated by drug companies that profit from the weight loss industry); despite this he knew that many colleagues would advise patients about their diets and weight, even if they’d never taken one course about nutrition or questioned what they’d been taught or kept up to date on studies. They’d use what they knew, or thought they knew, about nutrition and “healthy weight” to inform their advice. This practice was accepted by both their peers and mentors (who also perhaps never took that nutrition elective). Hearing this made me furious, and I’m STILL angry about it. So, to the people who insist that doctors know better than us because they went to med school: Just because these people went to school for a number of years doesn’t mean they spent even a fraction of it studying what they’re talking about - especially if the subject was just an elective for them.