It already happens in medicine. Of course, a lot of it is "I'm afraid of getting sued so I'm going to cover my ass with all these tests." but, still.
When I was younger I had a pain in my abdomen I had never experienced before. My grandmother told me to go to their family doctor who was probably older than they were. He pushed on some things and tapped on some things and finally diagnosed me. "It's gas. Go home and have a big fart." Sure enough, hours later, a big release and the pain was gone.
These days I'd have been sent in for at least an MRI or CAT scan to go along with all the blood work that they would do.
Now, I know what some of you are going to say. "But it COULD have been something way worse!" Sure, it could have been. But this guy had been a doctor for a long time by that point and knew from experience that it was gas. Just like when I recently had to rebuild a really old server and was getting errors that suggested missing class files but, after 25 years of doing this, I knew that it was actually missing a PHP module.
There are plenty of stories of the opposite where the old doctor uses their intuition and it fails to a basic checklist. Instead of seeing temp 101, symptoms A+B+C = X they see (looks young and healthy, can't be X because X is only for old people). Turns out it is X
I mean one of the most famous stores is of experienced doctor refusing to wash their hand because they know better based on their "years of experience"
When I was younger I had a pain in my abdomen I had never experienced before. My grandmother told me to go to their family doctor who was probably older than they were. He pushed on some things and tapped on some things and finally diagnosed me. "It's gas. Go home and have a big fart." Sure enough, hours later, a big release and the pain was gone.
These days I'd have been sent in for at least an MRI or CAT scan to go along with all the blood work that they would do.
Now, I know what some of you are going to say. "But it COULD have been something way worse!" Sure, it could have been. But this guy had been a doctor for a long time by that point and knew from experience that it was gas. Just like when I recently had to rebuild a really old server and was getting errors that suggested missing class files but, after 25 years of doing this, I knew that it was actually missing a PHP module.
Less is more and experience is golden.