Other professionals have to worry about personal liability for their mistakes.
The problem in San Francisco is that management beyond Childs was incompetent. They should have had an exit strategy for ANY employee and made proactive steps to make sure they would not be in precisely the sort of position they ended up in.
Other professions have standards and licensing to the point where they will tell upper management to "go pound sand" because they have a license to look after.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
