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>> and you have to deal with medical doctors, who assume that a terminal professional degree conferring upon them a title they appropriated from academia means

>> and you have to deal with medical doctors, who assume that a terminal professional degree conferring upon them a title they appropriated from academia means they are experts in all fields. Dang, I do not like Doctors as much as the next person (ok, Medical doctors, I am a doctor of engineering, I suppose, according to some piece of paper)... but you are just _jaded_. I have met Doctors who understand full well that they do not know it all. Sure I have met conceited, full of themselves doctors who think they play god too. For the most part, people are people, and IMHO, on average, someone who went to get a terminal degree and did so with good teachers was taught good and well that they surely did not and do not know it all. I sure as hell know that I know nothing about life, the universe and everything, even though I have three letters after my name. I agree with this statement, however: >> Medical software often sits at a sad intersection. Not sure what a good solution is.

bena 2y ago
I started out in medical software and have worked with a lot of doctors. Humility is not a trait they cultivate in any great quantity. And I've worked with various industries over the course of my career. Doctors, especially surgeons, on average, are a special breed of arrogant. Outside of working with them, they're fine. Just be prepared to fight for every decision, have to do it their way, have it fail, then have to do the thing you should have done in the first place, then convince them it was their decision in the first place. As to the solution, I don't know it either. I think there needs to be that first person who can come in with that unique combination of desire, skill, and determination to do something. And that person will either be the person who figures out the solution or at least puts us on the path to finding one.

bena 2y ago

I started out in medical software and have worked with a lot of doctors. Humility is not a trait they cultivate in any great quantity. And I've worked with various industries over the course of my career. Doctors, especially surgeons, on average, are a special breed of arrogant. Outside of working with them, they're fine. Just be prepared to fight for every decision, have to do it their way, have it fail, then have to do the thing you should have done in the first place, then convince them it was their decision in the first place. As to the solution, I don't know it either. I think there needs to be that first person who can come in with that unique combination of desire, skill, and determination to do something. And that person will either be the person who figures out the solution or at least puts us on the path to finding one.