Unless you're both a surgeon and a programmer you probably shouldn't make sweeping statements like that.

I'm just a programming but I think a large portion of the bucks surgeons make is due to the expense and duration of medical school.

And the fact that they work directly to save/improve/alter life whereas great software projects tend to be somewhat disconnected from the actual life saving thereby making their authors somewhat removed from that 'thing' that allows doctors to charge the big bucks.

You know there's a lot of medical software right? And I'm not just talking about record keeping. What do you think most high end medical and scientific instruments run on?

You implant the skin in the eye and after two months "it acquires a blood supply". Surgeons and doctors do great work, and especially in this article, but they deal in stuff that heals itself. From an technologist's point of view, I say it's indistinguishable from magic.

No such force assists the programmer.