I mean, physicians are still people and can hold stupid beliefs. Our family doctor, who is otherwise fully licenced medical professional and finished actual med

I mean, physicians are still people and can hold stupid beliefs. Our family doctor, who is otherwise fully licenced medical professional and finished actual medical school not some quack university, would regularly recommend my mother herbs and various folk treatments, maybe in a belief that it's better to prescribe us a course of herbal tea(which will do nothing) instead of yet another course of antibiotics for what appears to be a normal cold. Obviously the show is fictional and dramatized - but I could totally see a normal doctor who knows better telling a grieving mother that this is what happened, that her baby absorbed radiation in order to save her - even though it is a complete lie, it might help her with the grieving process. I don't think they should do it, but I think it's believable enough.