Like any field I think there is a spectrum of quality and there are some really great doctors that know a lot, some really bad ones, and a lot of mediocre ones.
I've had a doctor (in the bay area) tell me that I should smoke a cigarette instead of having coffee if I'm having trouble sleeping, but want to keep working on something. Another talk positively about the butter coffee guy. I think the main reason they don't talk about a lot of options is probably time constraint and the common case being right most of the time. This means if you're actually not a common case you're probably better off investing your own time to try and figure things out too.
I like this article though, I think there is some similarity of style in troubleshooting software and disease diagnosis (just very different things to reason about).
Like any field I think there is a spectrum of quality and there are some really great doctors that know a lot, some really bad ones, and a lot of mediocre ones.
I've had a doctor (in the bay area) tell me that I should smoke a cigarette instead of having coffee if I'm having trouble sleeping, but want to keep working on something. Another talk positively about the butter coffee guy. I think the main reason they don't talk about a lot of options is probably time constraint and the common case being right most of the time. This means if you're actually not a common case you're probably better off investing your own time to try and figure things out too.
I like this article though, I think there is some similarity of style in troubleshooting software and disease diagnosis (just very different things to reason about).