[LeifCarrotson]

Look for the root cause,not the proximal one.

You can certainly blame one bad doctor. You could probably blame a group of associated doctors, if the problem was associated with a certain hospital or medical school.

But when the problem is something that thousands and thousands of individual doctors mess up, it's hard to blame them all.

Personally, I blame the slimy Purdue salesmen and the idiot bureaucrats who let prescription drug companies advertise prescription drugs on TV, or give kickbacks to doctors who prescribe their medicine. Without these awful incentives, you wouldn't have this widespread failure.

[stef25]

This is like saying web developers aren't responsible for thousands of websites getting hacked through some plugin, because the authors of a plugin simply said it was cool, and they advertised it as such and the devs got some affiliate kickback every time they implemented it on a site.

The analogy doesn't work 100% but pretty close :)

[mercer]

To alter the analogy, perhaps these web developers might be implementing said plugin because their manager told them to, and once said plugin took off clients started demanding it.

Most web developers that I know who have this problem fit this description. they don't like doing any of this, but it's what they're told to do. Or alternatively they're barely 'developers' and care about other things instead (many designer-developers, for example).