>I've frequently lamented my decision to pursue Information Systems over medicine ... for one reason and one reason alone ... derivation of profits from a stable base of operations. Think about it ... the human body ... over the lifetime of a physician ... evolves very little (even though the knowledge of that body changes significantly ... but the body itself does not). This enables a physician to maintain his or her practice with a reasonable amount of additional training.

That comparison seems a bit odd to me. How could you compare a physician's job to a developer's job??

The part that I'm wondering more about is when you say that a physician can maintain his or her practice with a reasonable amount of additional training.

Like for any job I'd say that wanting to be amongst the best is key. So perhaps the real question is how good do you really want be doing what you are doing?

So again I'm wondering where the comparison makes sense. Perhaps you could compare an average physician to a guru developer. But I don't see how you could compare a guru physician to a developer. No matter how good is that developer.

To me it looks like there are so many things to consider when dealing with a patient compared to dealing with a computer.

On top of that imagine what the physician's job would be if the body evolved a lot. Body parts appearing or disappearing depending on given conditions :-D

Really I don't see where to begin to compare both worlds. Perhaps it's based a lot on what I don't know about a physician's job but to me their job appears to be a lot more complicated than mine.