Are you joking? Physicians not only get better with practice (it's called "professional skills"), they are also required to attend continuing education to keep up their academic knowledge in order to keep their licenses. Your logic would have the youngest doctors as department heads. Sometimes I really wonder what you are thinking, FK.
It's no joke, and I think you're just not following what I am saying. :) I supposed that Palin's doctor gave the go ahead to travel with the baby "today". I further SUPPOSED that Kolo relayed what his doctor told him from 25 years ago, when the information was relevant to him. Since we appear to have competing doctors, I concluded that MAYBE the doctor from today might have a little more information than a doctor from a quarter century ago. That's where I'm coming from.
Perhaps you are not following what I am saying. :) Medical standards do change. When I was in school, the "normal" (systolic) blood pressure was 100+age in years. Thus if you were 50, your "normal" BP would have been 150! The same thing can be said of diabetes. A fasting blood sugar of 200 was "normal."
But with Kolo, the care and the advice he received over the years were according to the current standards of practice at that time all the way up to this day. In other words, what Kolo's physician would recommend today should be the same as Palin's.
One thing Palin's physician can't claim is a 25-year success of caring for her son. Obviously Kolo's physician did something right, and for you to dismiss him/her is factually out of sync. Maybe in 25 years, her doctor can say "I did the right thing" too.