Is that really reasonable, though? Doctors don't have a use for statistics in their daily professional lives, and they almost certainly have less free time in which to immerse themselves in a field of math that isn't going to help them.

Journalists, on the other hand, often should or need to rely on statistics to convey useful and pertinent information in a meaningful way. That they often obviously aren't taught and otherwise usually don't learn statistics, or at least not effectively, strikes me as a much bigger problem than doctors who don't have that knowledge.

Now, the people who write reports like these, they should have and use a thorough working understanding of statistics. I'd say what's really missing is effective collaboration between the people who do the work and the people who should be doing and writing the analysis.