"always verify". Well that's obviously not a true statement but (not singling you out) I wonder why there is such a compulsion to defend the honor, as it were, of medical doctors.

It's not exactly the same as pharma, but in the medical device field salespeople are commonly in operating theatres. Clearly the surgeons doing this do not have time to "verify" what they are being told. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-i...

Americans would do well to stop idolizing doctors and realize that huge numbers of them are lazy, incompetent shills who routinely do a lot of preventable damage.