Title basically. I’m about midlife crisis age (lol) and I’ve been on computers and technology since I could walk. What is with all these doctors who are barely older than me who can barely use the Internet, don’t know how to type or what an adblocker is? I don’t feel like I can trust a doctor who is ok with malware coming in because they doesn’t run a free adblock or even DNS block. I mean wth?
Hospitals have IT departments for a reason. IT is not a doctors job you talk computer stuff to a non-data science/bioinformatics involved medical person and you’re going to get a blank stare. I’m on these IT threads and I still don’t really understand things, like I can understand when explained but I lose the knowledge fairly quickly because I don’t use it. It’s not relevant to doing my job.
I’m a postdoc so tangential to the MDs/DOs and I can see my IT skills getting worse as time goes on. I have so many other priorities in order for my career to progress that something has to give. I want to switch to and learn Linux but I work 60h a week and spend the rest taking care of the baby, dog, and house (wife works 80h and helps where she can).
It doesn’t help that due to the existence of incompetents our work systems are pretty locked down and as stupid-proofed as they can be. Microsoft keeps moving or getting rid of the functionality I used to know so I’m slowly losing capability to do things without looking it up and we all know how search has gone to shit. Meanwhile HR switches systems every couple years so there’s like 5 different softwares I need to know for training, taxes, and other things. There are like 3 different ways to VPN in using personal or work computers as they’re doing ye olde make a new standard to replace old standard and now there are 2 standards and what systems you can access are different between what VPN you use for some reason.
We all know it’s a mess but because downtime and system changes can literally affect lives even small changes are onerous. Meanwhile 90% of the people are underpaid.