But "staffers" may well include doctors, and there's nobody here who can say either way unless someone steps up with the recordings. I left out the rest because I wanted to point out that there are people with financial incentives who did push this and I don't see why it matters if they're doctors or "staffers" or the hospital's Director of Ethics.

If the Director of Ethics and their staff think this is appropriate, it'd be more surprising if the doctors didn't engage in the same.