It depends on what you mean with 'a lot of places', but coding up healthcare data systems or firmware for devices where you'll have no interaction with patients

It depends on what you mean with 'a lot of places', but coding up healthcare data systems or firmware for devices where you'll have no interaction with patients or hospital, it's the company that's liable. Them hiring only people with degrees is almost certainly orthogonal to legal requirements in such cases. Any sort of professional interaction with patients, sure, whole different ballgame.