Doctors run around the hospital and perform 20 hour long surgeries that are very stressful. Lawyers get yelled at and abused by their customers and are under lots of pressure, teachers have to handle the chaos at their class, have to deal with nasty students and their parents.
Programmers, on the other hand, sit in their room without having to deal with people and just code. They don't suffer, they don't “bust their asses off”, they work easily in a relaxed laid back environment. I asked many programmers whether they liked their job or not and ALL of them said they liked it. I asked doctors the same question and got the exact opposite answer. It's really unfair that there's a sector that doesn't suffer while the rest of the country does.