I remember reading once that doctors who manage other doctors still practice medicine part of their day. If so, why, when they have a business that also changes

I remember reading once that doctors who manage other doctors still practice medicine part of their day. If so, why, when they have a business that also changes quickly and is actually life threatening, is that the case? Perhaps they realize remaining in touch with your field is valuable. Here are some papers with findings that indicate how practicing doctors as hospital administrators improve the quality of their hospitals above those hospitals that have just business managers. http://www.amandagoodall.com/papers.html http://www.amandagoodall.com/papers.html Why then is it the norm that so many developers who move into management do so to "get away from developing"? It seems unique to development, or maybe just uniquely easy to see when someone is clueless about technical matters. Anecdotally, all my worst managers were "out of touch" but thought they still were hot stuff technically. My best were either completely non-technical and trusted their team, or were developing at least 1/4 of the time (and he worked mostly automating all the crap work we hated and fixing bugs).