[mjcohen]

Medicine also requires, after college, medical school and a residency - typically 6 to 9 years work. Programming requires none of this.

[maccard]

In the US. In many other places, medicine is an undergraduate field of study, you're in a hospital from your first year, and by year 3 you're being paid.

[th3sly]

> Programming requires none of this.

But it requires you to refresh your knowledge constantly so from this point of view it's similar

[KptMarchewa]

If you're arguing that medicine does not, then I hope you're doing software engineering.

[harpiaharpyja]

> so from this point of view it's similar