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Just another study about expertise and how it can maybe not be beneficial: https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1797 https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1797

by cbanek 7y ago

Just another study about expertise and how it can maybe not be beneficial: https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1797 https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1797 From "Physician age and outcomes in elderly patients in hospital in the US: observational study": > Physicians’ skills, however, can also become outdated as scientific knowledge, technology, and clinical guidelines change. Incorporating these changes into clinical practice is time consuming and can at times be overwhelming. Interest in how quality of care evolves over a physician’s career has revived in recent years, with debates over how best to structure programs for continuing medical education, including recent controversy in the US regarding maintenance of certification programs. > Within the same hospital, patients treated by older physicians had higher mortality than patients cared for by younger physicians, except those physicians treating high volumes of patients. Basically, expertise can change, and if you don't keep up, you may be following outdated advice (which might not useful or even possibly harmful). I feel like the "dropping your equipment" is a part of this. You need to know the right tool for the right job, and sometimes doing the same thing for years might lead you down the wrong path.

grawprog 7y ago
>I feel like the "dropping your equipment" is a part of this. You need to know the right tool for the right job, and sometimes doing the same thing for years might lead you down the wrong path. This happened at my last job. The company I worked for hadn't really changed their methods for about 7 years. Jobs went slow, we worked ridiculous amounts of overtime and mistakes were a regular part of the job. Over the years I worked there, I went through everything, replaced a few processes, convinced the owner to get newer more efficent tools and in the end, cut down the amount of overtime we worked to almost nothing, reduced actual human operater times on our machines from about 2-3 hours per run to 20 minutes, and reduced mistakes and error from once a week or so to once in a blue moon. The thing is, I didn't do anything amazing or groundbreaking, they could have been operating that way for longer, they'd just found something that had worked and never bothered to try and improve their system. I was left alone for a few years and given free reign to do pretty much whatever I wanted, I got sick of being overworked, so I started figuring out and changing whatever I could to make things quicker, easier and better and it really didn't take much in the end to make a drastic improvement.

by cbanek 7y ago

grawprog 7y ago

>I feel like the "dropping your equipment" is a part of this. You need to know the right tool for the right job, and sometimes doing the same thing for years might lead you down the wrong path. This happened at my last job. The company I worked for hadn't really changed their methods for about 7 years. Jobs went slow, we worked ridiculous amounts of overtime and mistakes were a regular part of the job. Over the years I worked there, I went through everything, replaced a few processes, convinced the owner to get newer more efficent tools and in the end, cut down the amount of overtime we worked to almost nothing, reduced actual human operater times on our machines from about 2-3 hours per run to 20 minutes, and reduced mistakes and error from once a week or so to once in a blue moon. The thing is, I didn't do anything amazing or groundbreaking, they could have been operating that way for longer, they'd just found something that had worked and never bothered to try and improve their system. I was left alone for a few years and given free reign to do pretty much whatever I wanted, I got sick of being overworked, so I started figuring out and changing whatever I could to make things quicker, easier and better and it really didn't take much in the end to make a drastic improvement.