I am not a doctor and cannot say this for certain. I respect the effort involved in acquiring the title of a medical doctor. But purely as a thought-experiment,

I am not a doctor and cannot say this for certain. I respect the effort involved in acquiring the title of a medical doctor. But purely as a thought-experiment, I'd argue that the actual intellectual complexity of the job of many programmers far exceeds that of many doctors, outside of some complicated specialties or surgery I suppose. Many doctors' jobs essentially become following checklists that insurance companies require. Many of them do not do much of anything other than push whatever pills and medications that Pharma salesman wine and dine them to automatically push. And unlike TV shows like House, most doctors do not do much investigation to try and diagnose ailments outside of trying the most common solution: the number of stories you can read about patients' pain not being taken seriously by doctors and having to read WebMD and try and diagnose themselves and then begging a physician to try and seriously consider their theory is breathtaking.