"In all of dath ilan there aren't actually that many people who want to spend half their waking hours training every single emergency cert they're eligible for, to high fluency, at realistic stress levels. Many of those don't want to go into medicine specifically."
"And not all of Exception Handling is movie-style needing to lightning-integrate twenty unprecedented weird observations into a shocking yet correct theory using sheer uncrystallized fluid intelligence and five different polymath backgrounds. Sometimes, even in the weird hypotheticals that Exception Handling tries to position itself to handle, it's more about having somebody who's trained in exactly the right five weird protocols because she's trained in everything and can do that for twelve hours straight given adequate prediction-market guidance. Though you did not, actually, fall down or fail to notice when the markets steered you wrong, even while incredibly distracted."
"Working for the weird-hypothetical branch of Exception Handling means that, in most probable worlds, your life will have less impact than it would in most other occupations you're suited for - balanced by a tiny probability that you end up doing something incredibly incredibly important. Clearly not everyone has to do that, clearly someone has to do it, and so - as an obvious matter of conventional morality - the deciding factor can be whether you think it'd be fun."