> Nonsense. Why does a heart surgeon need to know anything about psychiatry? What does a radiologist need to know about cellular biology?
Medicine doesn't resemble neatly modulular systems with crisp APIs. A nodding familiarity with distant specialities is required because very frequently a patient cannot be well-treated by a single specialist.
I have a psychiatrist, an endocrinologist and an orthopaedic surgeon. They all take an intense interest in what the others have investigated, diagnosed or treated. More to the point, they have enough overlapping knowledge to profit from their interest.
> The equivalent for programming would be forcing someone to understand how transistors work at the atomic level, CPU architecture, and OS structure before letting them write a webapp.
Webapps don't often come down to distinguishing between conditions which are benign through uncomfortable, disruptive, disabling up to fatal, and besides, our hardware cousins have striven mightily to hide the messiness of reality from us. Medicine doesn't have improvable subject matter to protect it in the same way.
Medicine doesn't resemble neatly modulular systems with crisp APIs. A nodding familiarity with distant specialities is required because very frequently a patient cannot be well-treated by a single specialist.
I have a psychiatrist, an endocrinologist and an orthopaedic surgeon. They all take an intense interest in what the others have investigated, diagnosed or treated. More to the point, they have enough overlapping knowledge to profit from their interest.
> The equivalent for programming would be forcing someone to understand how transistors work at the atomic level, CPU architecture, and OS structure before letting them write a webapp.
Webapps don't often come down to distinguishing between conditions which are benign through uncomfortable, disruptive, disabling up to fatal, and besides, our hardware cousins have striven mightily to hide the messiness of reality from us. Medicine doesn't have improvable subject matter to protect it in the same way.