Long ago someone described this as 'silo learning' w each element isolated and functionally equivalent to the blind describing the elephant.

Medicine is hardly the only area we see this it cuts a vast swath through education too. What's fascinating is that compartmentalizing information is the basic model "intelligence" orgs are built on.

An operation involving many people, each with a small puzzle piece prevents catastrophic compromise of a full plan. A select few with the whole array source input offers the highest level of certainty controlling the outcome.

It's wonderful for a SEAL Team pre-dawn rescue but antithetical to learning, informed consent and self governing.