>And stress, I'm sure. They literally do make life and death decisions. If my program has a bug in it, nobody dies from it.
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You're probably right. My sister had some surgery in the fall and wanted a friend of hers, who's an anesthesiologist, to be part of the team. He refused, saying "When you lose a patient, you have nightmares. When it's a friend, you kill yourself."

Tamar