Thomas,
>>>I view medicine to be more on the scientific side (the other side of the scale being "art") when compared to IT
Some doctors regard medicine as more art than science ;-)
For the rest: IT seems doomed to fall under the control of bureaucrats with both "IT" and "Finance" in their titles, which means the normal tension between beancounters and productive departments won't exist. The result seems inevitable.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1