The best decisions at the population level may not be the best decisions at the personal level. I think physicians should be able to make a decent call at the personal level.
Back in March we were told masks didn't work because there was a shortage and it was "the right thing to do" to say they didn't work. We were also told by high scientific institutions that closing borders was a bad idea.
Probably many people wonder now if the vaccine really is safe, or if it's just "the right thing to do" at the population level to get a lot of people vaccinated even if it's not safe. Hard to regain trust after dropping the ball so hard too many times.
I think the point would be that expertise in those fictional scenarios doesn't correlate with expertise in real scenarios, and many experts only have been trained in fictional scenarios.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg