On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:14, Anne Wilson wrote: > [...snip] > My sister-in-law is a technophobe radiographer, working in a major > city hospital. A couple of weeks ago a whole new system was put in > for them, and they had to start the big job of migrating all their > data - a nightmare of them, when they also had to continue their own > jobs. Two days later they were hit by the virus and the whole, > brand-new, network was down for a full week. Not only their > hospital, but all the others to which they were linked. When they > got it back they had a week's backlog of work to enter into the > system. > > Their sysadmin is being paid by the National Health Service, our taxes > are paying him. Why???? >
I don't know what it is with doctors and technology. My mother works for a govt dept that does surveys on doctors etc and has similar stories - the office has a couple of dozen PCs and is down more than it's up. They have a guy who is on call at $180 an hour and is usually there 3 days a week. One time it took him 23 hours billed time to make one printer available to the computer on front desk... The other thing is, I remember one time I went to my local GP and he was running XP on a laptop on his desk. He typed in my symptoms etc and it suggested the medicine and the dose, printed out a neat little scrip etc. I thought that was pretty neat until I mentioned it to my Mum, and she told me that one particular drug company GIVES the doctors the laptops loaded with their own particular software that ONLY suggests their own drugs... hmmmmmm - conflict of interest, anyone? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand.
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