True, but the AMA seems to fight enabling other professions (nurses, pharmacists) from taking on roles traditionally held by doctors.

I rather wish software engineering had a professional association with the lobbying power of the AMA.

It would be a damned nightmare. The practitioners are dying of overwork, their patients are dying due to being treated by people who can barely stand after 36-hr days, and meanwhile the professional association comes up with a worker wellbeing plan.

Incompetence on a national scale.