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		drewg123 on May 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Dark Side of Doctoring True, but the AMA seems to fight enabling other professions (nurses, pharmacists) from taking on roles traditionally held by doctors. I rather wish software engineering had a professional association with the lobbying power of the AMA.

arjie on May 16, 2017 [–]

It would be a damned nightmare. The practitioners are dying of overwork, their patients are dying due to being treated by people who can barely stand after 36-hr days, and meanwhile the professional association comes up with a worker wellbeing plan.

Incompetence on a national scale.

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