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?
I got an advanced degree in a highly specialized biological science field. On the way I quickly realized that I could make the most contributions in the "gap" between my discipline and a related, but also siloed discipline. Neither side acknowledged that I was "one of their own". I acquired an interdisciplinary perspective to solve lots of problems in my career but always remained a professional pariah. At the tail end of my career God put me in a spot to see my most important humanitarian "assignment" to come. Little did I know that that task would eventually end my career because it forced me into yet another discipline, collaborating with engineers. The last contribution took on a life of its own, and all my old original fingerprints have long been deleted as latecomers took credit for seeing the need and creating solutions. Man's plans are not God's plan and I'm ok with that. God thrust me into a spot that had more real world impact than I ever imagined possible, even at the cost of my own career.
Avoiding details, would be too easy to doxx. Thanks for reading my blog.
Tldr: the gap between silos is always the most interesting spot to work.