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I've developed for multiple medical companies and applications. This describes exactly 0 of the doctors, radiologists, surgeons, or researchers I worked with.

I've developed for multiple medical companies and applications. This describes exactly 0 of the doctors, radiologists, surgeons, or researchers I worked with. I quit the medical field because it's incredibly hard work and very difficult to succeed because of the additional hurdles (regulation, entrenched interests) unless you are a large corporation. And large corporations suck.

xradionut 13y ago
It describes a significant percentage of doctors, lawyers and airline pilots I've coded for...
xradionut 13y ago
Here's a colleagues blog post on the issues: http://www.midnightdba.com/DBARant/?p=894 http://www.midnightdba.com/DBARant/?p=894
vacri 13y ago
A friend of mine was a QA engineer for a famous children's hospital. He could do absolutely nothing, because every doctor had their favourite vendor with their favourite sales rep that gave them goodies, and they all hated the idea of interoperating and making things more efficient. And once a doctor says "If you change this system, children will die!", that's it, conversation is over. It doesn't matter that everyone knows the doctor is covering themselves, the point is that the only people that can override the doctor are the higher-ups, of which there are few, and all of those are playing their own political game. My friend tells the story of being in one meeting with the various doctors, and one of the elder ones made a snide comment about another doctor 'not being here long enough to understand how things are done in this place' - to which the reply was 'I've been here for 17 years'. Myself personally, I worked as a neurology tech for four years, and the doctors I worked with were a broad mix. Some of them were the sweetest people you could hope to meet. Others were such money-grubbers they directly said to the pharmaceutical reps "don't give us 'gifts', just give us the money directly". In that broad mix were doctors so awesome that they write their own mouse drivers, to doctors that behaved just as xradionut mentioned. Doctors are humans too, there are a lot of them, and they run the same kinds of personalities as other humans.
- Ensorceled 13y ago
  I don't doubt it. I just hated seeing "Doctors" tarred with that overly broad brush when the ones I worked with were universally pleasant colleagues.
rdouble 13y ago
Maybe it's a generational thing. It describes my dad and all his doctor friends to a T.

xradionut 13y ago

It describes a significant percentage of doctors, lawyers and airline pilots I've coded for...

xradionut 13y ago

Here's a colleagues blog post on the issues: http://www.midnightdba.com/DBARant/?p=894 http://www.midnightdba.com/DBARant/?p=894

vacri 13y ago

A friend of mine was a QA engineer for a famous children's hospital. He could do absolutely nothing, because every doctor had their favourite vendor with their favourite sales rep that gave them goodies, and they all hated the idea of interoperating and making things more efficient. And once a doctor says "If you change this system, children will die!", that's it, conversation is over. It doesn't matter that everyone knows the doctor is covering themselves, the point is that the only people that can override the doctor are the higher-ups, of which there are few, and all of those are playing their own political game. My friend tells the story of being in one meeting with the various doctors, and one of the elder ones made a snide comment about another doctor 'not being here long enough to understand how things are done in this place' - to which the reply was 'I've been here for 17 years'. Myself personally, I worked as a neurology tech for four years, and the doctors I worked with were a broad mix. Some of them were the sweetest people you could hope to meet. Others were such money-grubbers they directly said to the pharmaceutical reps "don't give us 'gifts', just give us the money directly". In that broad mix were doctors so awesome that they write their own mouse drivers, to doctors that behaved just as xradionut mentioned. Doctors are humans too, there are a lot of them, and they run the same kinds of personalities as other humans.

Ensorceled 13y ago
I don't doubt it. I just hated seeing "Doctors" tarred with that overly broad brush when the ones I worked with were universally pleasant colleagues.

rdouble 13y ago

Maybe it's a generational thing. It describes my dad and all his doctor friends to a T.