More generally, do journalists without scientific training need to consult with anyone before declaring who we should be praising for health improvements?

More generally, do journalists without scientific training need to consult with anyone before declaring who we should be praising for health improvements? >Atul Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In public health, he is executive director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally.[2] >He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate, and is the author of the books Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Gawande https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Gawande