Too busy training to, you know, treat patients:
The medical profession is not noted for effective lobbying on its own behalf. This probably principally derives from the fact that most men and women who pursue the grueling and academically challenging route of four years of college majoring in a science (not “public policy” or any other type of “basket-weaving” major), then four years of medical school, then years of very low pay/very long hours residency, do so primarily to educate for a career of helping people and for the humanitarian and intellectual challenge; lastly, if at all, for the income. Hence, their national professional organizations in large measure reflect that resultant disinterest in self-protection.
