I am one of those medical writers. I am a scientist who worked as a researcher until a couple years ago. I switched career tracks because a) it’s hard to work at the bench when your kids are constantly being sent home and as a medical writer I could work from home, b) medical research is a joke. It’s much more a career game than a pursuit of knowledge. In fact, the most successful scientists are the best BS artists, c) medical writers are paid much better and have far greater job security.

In any case, from both my experience as a researcher at a medical university and as a medical writer I can confirm that doctors are not trained to think. They’re great memorizers who know how to match up sets of symptoms with various pharmaceutical or surgical interventions. So yes, they do need a lot of spoon feeding.