Yeah, the doctors I've talked to tend to say the same. A neurosurgeon seeing a MRI or CT scan of my wife's brain said it would be amusing to see her brain's tissues, but fortunately it was not needed.

I had a surgery in my hips which the doctor said the same, he wanted to do the surgery to improve his research and even asked me to use my files, anonymously obviously, in his presentations and research.

I think we all are interested in our work, and he said that every case is different, I'm not sure if experience would help much.