An employee at a company is likely responsible for a small piece of a product that will affect the lives of some number of people by a very small amount. A doct

An employee at a company is likely responsible for a small piece of a product that will affect the lives of some number of people by a very small amount. A doctor will affect the lives of some number of people by an enormous amount. The responsibility is much higher in the medical profession, so doctors may "just show up" but when they don't, people suffer dramatically; when a regular employee doesn't "show up", nobody bats and eyelash.