[bsbechtel]

I don't think that's a fair comparison. For complex cases, a medical diagnosis would order a battery of tests in that first 15 minute consultation. Then, a different group of healthcare specialists would spend several hours running requested tests, and send the results back to the original Doctor. This would be the equivalent to the programmer setting up and running a number of tests to learn more about the program, which would take several hours of the programmer's time. The only difference between programming and medicine is that testing and diagnosis is done by the same person with programming.