Yes, people in this thread are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Everyone knows that doctors are overqualified for the vast majority of tasks they are responsible for. Normally, there's good reason for this, because you want a highly-trained eye to spot unusual and atypical cases.

But when you're dealing with a pandemic, you can do without. Do you really think that your typical doctor spent all that much time in med school or residency learning how to operate a particular kind of machinery? If we have the ventilators, we'll be able to find people to operate them.