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We have to use pen and paper for everything. The doctor probably is saving himself a lot of headaches. I work with programming for many years, but computers ar

We have to use pen and paper for everything. The doctor probably is saving himself a lot of headaches. I work with programming for many years, but computers are not made for regular people. This is a myth. Many times I have to save my wife about something strange happening in her computer, a WiFi printer not connecting, some virus suck in and showing popups, screen freezing, internet is not connecting, and this goes on and on, almost every day. Man I hate Windows. At least when I solve the problem I can come back to my solid Ubuntu. Wait, one update arrived. Oh god now my keyboard is not working anymore. I hate computing.

icebraining 9y ago
https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad.
christophilus 9y ago
Using pen and paper for everything may be a competitive advantage. I know so many medical professionals who say the worst part of their job is the computer system. The programs are poorly designed, take forever to do basic inputs, etc. A friend of mine spends literally hours per day-- every day-- doing data entry after hours because the software is so bad and so complicated that he can't properly do data entry while helping his patients. It's pretty easy to train people with a notepad and a pen and a really basic form. Paper doesn't have connectivity issues. It doesn't fail to work due to bugs. It works during power outages.... I don't actually think paper is superior in all things... It's harder to share between locations, for instance. But I think the best medical system would be very paper-like. Maybe it would even just be paper. You jot things down, then scan them in to associate them as documents against a patient's account. Dunno. But the current state of medical systems is terrible.

icebraining 9y ago

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad.

christophilus 9y ago

Using pen and paper for everything may be a competitive advantage. I know so many medical professionals who say the worst part of their job is the computer system. The programs are poorly designed, take forever to do basic inputs, etc. A friend of mine spends literally hours per day-- every day-- doing data entry after hours because the software is so bad and so complicated that he can't properly do data entry while helping his patients. It's pretty easy to train people with a notepad and a pen and a really basic form. Paper doesn't have connectivity issues. It doesn't fail to work due to bugs. It works during power outages.... I don't actually think paper is superior in all things... It's harder to share between locations, for instance. But I think the best medical system would be very paper-like. Maybe it would even just be paper. You jot things down, then scan them in to associate them as documents against a patient's account. Dunno. But the current state of medical systems is terrible.