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"He refused to do it but says, "there's always an engineer willing" to simply follow orders"

Chad and Brad. Do you think doctors and engineers could have such high standards for themselves if, they didn't restrict access to their profession somehow?

There is no desire to get rid of coding bootcamps on any side—negative costs are externalized to the consumer.




It's not so much about limiting access as simply if Chad and Brad are too bound by law to refuse doing unethical things, there will be no (legally employable) engineer willing to "simply follow orders".


> bound by law

yes, this amounts to more or less, the same thing-at least interpreting in terms of adding constraints.


I've worked with doctors that have been low on ethics. I used to be an EEG tech, and we got a cover neurologist in to diagnose some EEG recordings (the regular neuros were on leave). Despite the tech reports stating exactly when and where the abnormalities occurred in the 20-min recordings, along with annotations in the recording itself, this fucker just looked at the first minute, and if the abnormality wasn't there, just diagnosed it as 'normal', no abnormality. We had to get his batch of reporting redone by a neuro with a conscience.

However, doctors hold together very strongly. This doctor and another doctor we worked with were acknowledged by our neuros as terrible and doing their patients a misservice, but none of our doctors even contemplated reporting them in any way. Long story short, there's 'bad orders' in medicine as well.




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