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Originally Posted by Bira
...Skill-12 is defined as a "professional" level of skill because, as we already saw, someone with that level of skill will very rarely fail in a routine situation. ...
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There is a reason staff our hospitals with very expensive doctors in addition to (still not cheap) nurses. Dealing with routine situations is easy. Nurses can cope with routine medical problems (quite well, even). Doctors are there, in a very large part, to deal with the unusual problems. Remember, doctors see huge numbers of patients. They get "weird" outliers reasonably often, and need to be able to treat them. Medical standards aren't designed to handle the easy/standard 80-95% of the cases. They are there to deal with the 5-20% hard cases. A doctor who needs a +4 TDM to cope is a malpractice lawsuit waiting to happen.
So: if skill 12 is a good level to very rarely fail in routine situations, and nurses can handle most routine medical problems, then (starting) nurses might actually be reasonable candidates for Skill 12 (and they are, very much are, medical professionals). But that puts the "doctor" level significantly higher.