Most PhDs in this field are going to be in computer science. Computer science is not programming. Most of us are not hiring scientists.

OPs point is that if you were a hospital, you would take a different stance on the relevance of a doctorate degree to your hiring criteria.

They'd probably take the same stance, that a PhD is useless, since in a hospital you want nursing staff, or medical doctors. PhDs are going to be about as good as JDs (honestly likely even less useful).

I think it should be obvious that when I said ‘doctorate degree’ in that context I meant an MD.

In my experience the ones to avoid (at work and in life generally) are the folks with PhDs that bring it up all the time as if it's important and bestows upon them some special power.

What's the point of getting a PhD if people don't call you DR?

I've always thought that was a bad strategy. Better to underpromise and overdeliver in life.

A PhD mainly teaches you how to do research. If your particular job isn't research focused then it's unsurprising that usefulness isn't correlated with the degree.