[sgift]

> Imagine a doctor saying it's 5pm on a Friday and I'm meeting a friend in an hour so I'll just do a rush job of this surgery and it will probably work out fine.

Imaging right now. No problem. Humans are humans. Humans sometimes do rush jobs. Or are overworked. Or stressed. Maybe they have private problems, so their mind isn't 100% on the task.

Your suggestion that doctors are all professionals and wouldn't do such things is actually the exact opposite of the medicine professions conclusions: Humans make errors. Doctors, software developers, we all. And what helps to fix these things are better tools and allowing other people to check something (see above, nurses training to question doctors is exactly for this problems).

[Turing_Machine]

> Imaging right now. No problem.

Same here.

While some argue that the medical malpractice system has been abused, I don't think anyone argues that genuine malpractice doesn't exist. It happens all the time. As you say, doctors are human beings, and sometimes they get lazy, careless, or overworked.

[sheepmullet]

> Imaging right now. No problem. Humans are humans

> Your suggestion that doctors are all professionals

I'm saying the level of professionalism displayed by doctors is way above the average level of professionalism in software development.

I've worked in QA and have had dozens of developers blatantly lie to me.

How many doctors routinely lie and deliberately mislead their coworkers or their patients? 20%? 30%?

I've been a hiring manager and have interviewed hundreds of software developers and a huge proportion have misrepresented their actual skill set.

How many surgeons will claim they are experts in X surgery when in truth they sat in on an X surgery once while in med school?

What proportion of doctors knowingly push suboptimal solutions because it looks good on their resume or because they personally find it interesting?