Is it really? What about the expert, critical yet friendly review from other colleagues/competitors; the MDT meeting; the ward round? Most surgical patients have an incentive to never see the surgeon again, and the surgeon is strongly incentiveised to avoid having to see them again in the immediate future (i.e. to fix a postoperative bleed, etc). Is the same thing true of corporate programmers?

All metaphors are wrong. Some are useful. Is this one?