Reporting in with my own anecdote: I have totally opposite experiences.
I was at a medically-oriented place where there were a few pure EE engineers, and there was a lot of frustration by higher-ups for the EE's being clueless about medical things. The biomedical engineers were okay.
I was at a medically-oriented place where there were a few pure EE engineers, and there was a lot of frustration by higher-ups for the EE's being clueless about medical things. The biomedical engineers were okay.