The AMA doesn’t require perfection, yet a doctor has to pay six-figure liability insurance premiums for the risk of harming a small fraction of his patients. I don’t have faith that this would be run more practically.
I think it’s because civil and mechanical engineering weren’t invented from scratch in living memory. We already have some safe, conservative materials and designs for them to reuse.
Our profession is still in a very early stage, sort of like the era of barbers performing surgery.
