Oh, my.

I am not a bit surprised that P5P is not understood.

I have direct experience with doctors, who to this day do not really know what an NSAID is...or how it works!

When you see proof that doctors ignore FDA warning letters, about post marketing toxicities and continue with dangerous stupid treatments in the face of EVIDENCE to the contrary... not knowing what P5P is, is chump change. Examples are Hismanal,
Duract, Seldane, and Propulsid! (all these drugs worked exceptionally well, but had to be used carefully and only under physician monitored situations!) All had to be removed from sale in US to keep doctors from killing people, literally.

The medical conference I attend, for Chronic tertiary neurological pain, which focuses on Headache, but also includes RSD and Fibro, allows the audience to be mixed, but limits it to licensed professionals. So there are nurses, and pharmacists there as well as doctors. It tends to focus on etiology, identification/diagnosis with only some mention of treatments. It is an all day 10 hr, rather exhausting day and very expensive, but very very good. It is attached to University of Michigan as well. I'll be attending again this May. (my 3rd).

They tend to sequester physicians discussions at these things. The PD forum had a hoohaa about a PD conference not too long ago about this.
Having patients listen to how doctors think about them and treat them can be disconcerting. They label people as drug seekers, borderline hysterics, hypochondriacs, etc and laugh about it. The psychological issues, can be off putting. One psychiatrist I saw at a conference called the interview with a patient, who "needs" Prozac, an "organ recital" ... meaning if a patient relates a list of pain and discomfort ..that means they need Prozac, and sure, give it them, and here is how....yada yada. So even describing your pain --which seems to me necessary to a doctor after all--- can be viewed with disdain by them! In some ways, the attitude of House (on TV), which is exaggerated to some extent is really true.

So far your attendance is reaping useful stuff. And it appears to be what I suspected, too.

And yes, I agree, that patients still tend to avoid self empowerment.
And that is a shame, given all the free resources that are out there now with the internet.