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I'd say a combination of lack of incentive (doctors make good money) and potential for harm. A good doctor making a well thought out video still can't diagnose a person, and if someone were to misdiagnose themselves based on what a doctor said on youtube, then suffer significant harm because of what the video told her, the doctor could easily be legally liable.
Sounds plausible.
On a related note, I still can't figure out why there is so much insane dietary stuff on the Internet.
Some of it is probably that it isn't just the Internet. The 1800s had some pretty bonkers stuff in the US. The Internet just makes it visible to me. But there's still an insane amount of people promoting things on incredibly thin evidence that seem to get remarkable uptake.
There are also some other medicine-adjacent fields, like people talking about the health impacts of electromagnetic radiation, that have a remarkable amount of crazy stuff online.