[eclectic29]

Thanks for sharing. This is so disheartening. The other day I was debating with my friends how a doctors life is so cool that they don’t have to go though grueling coding interviews every single time they want to change jobs, don’t have to prove themselves every single quarter, don’t have to be answerable to anyone or write performance reviews or be subjected to arbitrary rubrics. Boy, I was so wrong. Every procession has its hazards. This has been a learning for me. Although I do feel that the PCP doctors in US seem to have a simpler life. They leave office at 5 and don’t take calls in the night. Happy to be corrected though.

[dogmatism]

US PCP doctors do take calls. It's less common for them to go to the hospital to admit their own patients anymore since the rise of "hospitalists" but they still take outpatient calls and calls from the ER.

Also, PCPs are subject to the most metrics/rubrics of any, and all the crap paperwork that any specialist can foist off onto them, they do. Shit rolls downhill, and PCP's are at the bottom

They may stop seeing patients at 5, but they sure as shit aren't done at 5. Most are logging back in even later doing all the "paperwork" they didn't have time to do during the day. Even has a nickname: "pajama time"

[Turing_Machine]

Even PCPs sometimes have to go home with the knowledge that someone died, and (being human) wondering if there was something else they could have done.

Now imagine that happening dozens or hundreds of times over the course of a career.

Unless coders are working on air traffic control or something similarly critical, it's pretty rare for a bug to kill someone.

[sensanaty]

I get what you mean, but doctors also go through a decade+ of medical school+being on rotation. Lots of devs out there (myself included) without even a bachelor's.

Same reason why classical engineering fields don't do anything like leetcode, those engineers are actually accredited.