I'm lucky enough to be healthy enough not to need a lot of direct contact with the medical establishment, but I know many people who have had illnesses that wer

I'm lucky enough to be healthy enough not to need a lot of direct contact with the medical establishment, but I know many people who have had illnesses that were misdiagnosed repeatedly by many different doctors, and a few people who had problems for which medicine's answer was "sorry, we ain't got shit for you, go die plz". I wouldn't say software development is "ahead" of medicine, though, the two fields are simply not at all comparable. I have yet to hear an analogy between software and another field (architectural engineering comes up a lot and that one is also pretty stupid) that actually makes any sense.