[marshray]

Most surgeons spend the great majority of their time in a regular doctor's office or making the rounds in a hospital. I've worked for surgeons and have spent hundreds of hours in the operating room. Tense moments happen but on the whole keeping a busy webserver up and running is probably more stressful for the staff.

[jlgreco]

Fair enough, I was under the impression that surgeons had particularly stressful jobs. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples of inherently stressful jobs though. Maybe table waiting, depending on levels of business.

Stress in the workplace seems to be to be a function of responsibility and activity. Speaking from experiance, lifeguard jobs have very high responsibility but (you hope) very very low activity; meanwhile jobs like being a farmhand are high activity but usually very low responsibility. Both of these were the lowest stress jobs I've ever had. Stress seems to go up when both of those factors are up, jobs with neither activity nor responsibility probably don't really exist (or at least pay well).