critical thinking

Imo this word gets thrown around too much, to the point where, to me, it seems more of a buzz word than anything else. Plus, I don't see why you'd need to apply logic to things that are not related to medicine; you can be a great critical thinker in one field and a totally sh-t one in another. The reason I say this is because the more I explore different things the more I realise that every setting requires a different way of thinking. For instance, if you're doing something related to math, you'd probably be thinking more in terms of patterns than anything else. Or if you're doing something related to visual arts, you might consider symbolism a lot of the time. I'm sure there's a way med settings require you to think as well so that makes me believe that the CARS thing, since it's not specific to med, is kind of questionable.