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by FeepingCreature 3271 days ago
No he wouldn't. Doctors are not obligated to write up case studies or submit them to medical publications.
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It's a bad analogy, yes. I'm not sure who the people who suffered intermittent system problems for months longer than they otherwise would have, had he reported the problems when he found them, are under the doctor analogy - not patients under his treatment, certainly.

> Doctors are not obligated to write up case studies or submit them to medical publications.

That's true, although I think we'd all agree that a person who has the knowledge to create a lifesaving treatment for a disease and doesn't bother writing it down because, well, writing is boring, is behaving rather unethically.

But this is merely computer science, not medicine.