> "500yr of progress being held back by 500yr of tradition" is highly applicable to the medical profession.
Is that true of most professions? The difference being we only really care when lives or large quantities of money are at stake. Probably more the later and less the former unfortunately.
Nobody cares what the skilled trades do. Tradition for the sake of tradition doesn't really get in the way of preventing human error in software, accounting or engineering.
Cops and doctors (in that order) seem to be the biggest offenders when it comes to rejecting process improvements to the detriment of society but there's definitely others. It's not a binary value.
Is that true of most professions? The difference being we only really care when lives or large quantities of money are at stake. Probably more the later and less the former unfortunately.