Sorry, you’re right. Doctors have it way easier than software engineers.

I definitely don’t think they have it easier. They work hard and the stakes are much higher.

But what you’re talking about is a person whose job it is to be oncall. It’s the equivalent of an SRE, rather than a SWE. They’re not doing it because they believe in “you build it, you run it” or anything like that.

Sarcasm simply serves to undermine any valid points that you have.

The point was that "on call" is specifically confined as an expectation only to certain types of doctors or under very urgent circumstances.

In addition, doctors have extra special dysfunctions like "too many hours in a shift".

However, many of these are because doctors also have been fighting various efforts to teach more of them which would enable distributing the required extra labor across more people.