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I'm a pharmacist, but since my boss knows I'm good with computers, she put me to manage the IT systems used by the pharmacy department. This role is well-define
by leonth 12y ago
I'm a pharmacist, but since my boss knows I'm good with computers, she put me to manage the IT systems used by the pharmacy department. This role is well-defined and there is at least one full-time staff in each public hospital here doing this, but no software development knowledge is required because there is a layer of IT consultants that supports us on very technical things (e.g. server provisioning, network configuration, integration). What I do is mainly defining requirements and provide content (both clinical and non-clinical).
I see HN as a way to keep up with IT in general - especially that all my other colleagues talk about totally different kinds of news. I find discussions well-balanced most of the time, and sometimes wonder "what do HN commenters say?" when I get to a news using other routes.
Yes I am a wantrepreneur, if there is such a word. It's pretty cool to (have the perception of) knowing two industries and try to piece them up together.
- rxmatic 12y agoDidn't think I would see another pharmacist on here. Sounds like you're somewhat into informatics. I got a first year residency that had a PGY2 in informatics. I decided that I'm in too much debt to be collecting that much interest for another two years. I used to have an interest in programming when I was in undergrad (engineering major), but I started to get out of the 'scene', for lack of a better word after I was accepted into pharmacy school... I was on reddit way back when programming was a main subreddit and eventually moved to this site when the comments and content when to hell.