No, buggy, it is not the same for law and business. Both of these require less than 4 years of post grad education which decreases debt, and once the degreee is in hand, they can work for a reasonable wage. Granted, law requires passing the bar to stand a chance to make decent money, and many don't even then. Medicine requires the extra year of grad school and then a minimum of 3 years training prior to actually working at your chosen profession. And best of all, there are board certifcation examinations. This is in addition to the USMLE required to apply for a medical license. Law and business do not have this extra burden.

One glaring difference between medicine and either law or business is the personal responsibility physicians feel. Law is adversarial and by definition one side loses. It is probably not fun, but it is not personal. A bad outcome for your patient is a personal defeat to many physicians even in situations beyond their control. A physician chat board I used to visit had a story from an oncologist who was found himself being asked to treat the wife of an attorney who represented a patient suing the doc for malpractice. The doc asked the attorney how he could bring his wife to a doctor he thought had committed malpractice. The response was that he was the best oncologist in Philly and the lawsuit was the attorney's job and really nothing personal. The doc, of course, felt it was personal for him as he had done his best in the treatment of the plantiff patient and the poor outcome was unavoidable. The doc was unable to understand the mindset of the attorney who would argue in court that the doc had made a mistake - how could he be trusted to treat the man's wife if he made mistakes? Obviously, in other professions it is recognized that there will be mistakes but in medicine there must be perfection. It is too high a standard to expect from anyone, but we expect it of ourselves and the public expects it of us as well.