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most doctors and nurses work off of mostly rote knowledge, software developers not nearly as much.

it's an apples and oranges comparison.




Maybe most bad doctors and nurses. It's like saying most SWEs just copy something from StackOverflow to do their jobs.

Good MDs and RNs know how to take in the full context of a patient to make a diagnosis. That takes complex understanding, not just rote memorization.


That’s a fairly common and wrong misconception of how doctors practice. In reality, there’s a lot of analytical work and “debugging” of symptoms. But even if you were correct, I fail to see how it makes it apples to oranges.

Do you _really_ believe coding up some CRUD SPA web page is the most mentally demanding job in the world?


I said mostly for a reason.




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