[JanisL]

> Obviously no programmer is solely relying on StackOverflow to do their job

I've encountered a few people who were doing something very close to this. I really hope that doesn't happen in medicine too.

[ascar]

That's down to the (obvious) fact that job performance and working ethics is not equal but distributed among practitioners.

I think this is especially visible in software "engineering" with people joining the craft after a few weeks of boot camp. (think engineering vs programming)

However, we put doctors through an especially rigorous and long training and certification process to minimize the amount of unqualified practitioners.

[vbezhenar]

Doctors are supposed to have a higher entry barrier than software developers. Does not mean that all of them are brilliant, of course.