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It seems to me (corrections welcome), that medical specialists are way, way more interchangeable than programmers. Each patient has a chart that follows them a
by jbooth 13y ago
It seems to me (corrections welcome), that medical specialists are way, way more interchangeable than programmers. Each patient has a chart that follows them around through the hospital and each specialist reads the chart, makes their decisions and documents what they're doing. There are problems with that, but it's the system. That very much makes the medical practitioners cogs in the system, compared to programmers who have a much longer ramp up time for a given codebase/patient.
- jiggy2011 13y agoSure and every codebase has documentation , specs and tests that follow it all over the internet.. I think the main difference probably comes down to medicine having more procedures and redundancy built in because you can't let a patient die when a particular doctor is not available. OTOH my older relatives definitely complain about/praise individual doctors for bedside manor , professionalism and misdiagnosis etc.