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Would you say CS is generally easier, with a smaller body of fundamentals, and a front-end JS dev could swap places with a back-end C# dev and the two would get up to speed a lot faster than an orthopedist and cardiologist, with all the specialized information in those two fields? Medicine just comes off like a lot more memorizing of an enormous volume of disparate information compared to programming.

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I'd say that in CS, there's a lot more transferrable knowledge. In medicine, there's a lot of specialization and niche knowledge. The cardiologist would know very little about orthopaedic specialist, for instance. I was a GP myself, and likely knew more about medicine & surgery in general. Although I had less specific knowledge, I could integrate information better (eg. Project manager, if you will, vs database specialist).

So yes -- in CS, if you work in an area with a lot of general knowledge -- you are likely to get up to speed faster. In medicine, if you're a GP, you can probably undergo additional specialist training much quicker than someone who first pursued a single specialty first.

From a frontend dev perspective a complex system like a living human being is nature's monolith of legacy hacks on top of legacy hacks, but you're damn right it holds up under millions of requests per second

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