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> It was still quite concerning that someone that spent 4-8 in med school lacked even basic computer skills. That doesn't surprise me, for the same reason I ca
by ben_w 1y ago
> It was still quite concerning that someone that spent 4-8 in med school lacked even basic computer skills.
That doesn't surprise me, for the same reason I can't tell you what a metatarsal is without googling.
What did surprise me, was that my dad had a home PC with internet for years before realising that Google search results had a scroll bar — it's not like he didn't know how computers worked, before retirement he'd been working as a software developer for one of the big UK defence contractors.
- adammarples 1y agoMetatarsals don't come up in your daily work. Using a computer is a constant daily task for a doctor. In this example he failed to use it properly and just said it didn't work instead. That's not really OK.
- itisokqqq 1y agoAlmost certainly saving the image was a violation of hipaa policy— giving emr records without the proper logging/etc can get the doc fired. The patient had a right to their images, but it’s like anything enterprise, getting it has to go through the proper channels. You can probably imagine the privacy problems if that image were saved out of the cache directory. I don’t think criticizing doctors for not knowing you can right click save image as makes any sense because it’s not an important part of their work.
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- reginald78 1y agoCan't comment on Google specifically but hidden scrollbars mean I often don't realize a dialog has scroll bars until I reach out into the dark edges to find what I hope is there. Microsoft will even harness this as a dark pattern to hide options they don't want you to choose. Perhaps your dad simply expected to scrollbars to be visible like they initially were.
- ben_w 1y agoThis was before scrollbars got routinely hidden like that, it was in the mid to late 2000s. He retired in the late 90s.
- resource_waste 1y agoThe longer I live, the more I see Physicians as people who are bad at math and/or who have parents who are physicians. There are a few people that are nither, but I think its safe to say at least 50% of physicians qualify as this.
- lostlogin 1y ago> years before realising that Google search results had a scroll bar If that happened now he would have never seen anything except adverts.
- rossant 1y agoSometimes I see almost only ads not on the first screen but on the first _page_.