Even if physicians wanted to try to learn/practice/apply across different fields, there is also tremendous push-back from other specialists, and anyone who tries is mocked. In retrospect, the cabal trained docs this way so that one could never understand the full spectrum of illness and treatment because the docs are all walled off from each other.
After the first two years of medical school, all the training then becomes uber-specific to whatever field the med student wants to study. Yet another example of keeping us divided. The fault was built into the system. Thoughts?
Medicine is as you have described. There was a great post by a physician in training who gave up due to seeing the problems in the system. I will agree from the viewpoint of a physician forced to take early retirement due to vaccine mandate.
The system has the hyperspecialization noted above partly due to sheer amount of information. Partly due to ability to control who enters the “guild” of each specialty. These multiple ivory towers then enforce a culture of deference to authority that totally destroys critical thinking. The entirety of training is referring to “evidence” without questioning the evidence. Most easily controlled group once all evidence is government and industry funded.