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In some way that is the mark of a "real" profession - if you are unhappy with the way someone has performed you can go to the relevant professional body and they will carry out an inquiry and they can be stopped from doing their job.

And yes, for people like lawyers, medical doctors etc. this does happen, for example the MMR vaccine fiasco resulted in this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8695267.stm

Can you imagine that happening with MBAs?




Or to computer programmers? Or system administrators? Or DBAs? Something about glasshouses and bricks seems apropos here.




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