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The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse

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Re: The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse

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Post by Vaslo »

blizdiddy wrote: post #2

Jcenters, whoever you are, kill this awful website. It reflows the width on scroll, the top bar occupies 1/5 of my phone, nobody wants whatever the fucking AI expanded blog slop you are selling. This isn’t clever, it’s just annoying.

It’s like people don’t test this stuff with regular people - they just test how to maximize revenue with enough nonsense

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Post by mock-possum »

blizdiddy wrote: post #2

Jcenters, whoever you are, kill this awful website. It reflows the width on scroll, the top bar occupies 1/5 of my phone, nobody wants whatever the fucking AI expanded blog slop you are selling. This isn’t clever, it’s just annoying.

My favorite part was when the article just stopped and showed nothing but white space

https://imgur.com/a/RxmZmGQ

Re: The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse

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Post by prh8 »

This already exists as something called dot phrases, which most doctors are familiar with. These are typically shared and refined and highly useful. You can find plenty of resources online as well.

This is just a hacky way of doing the same thing, all on your own, and a tremendously silly way to do it. Which makes sense because this is literally just an ad.

Re: The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse

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Post by pmontra »

xvxvx wrote: post #7

Things have changed since I last watched it. I much preferred the Daleks.

Remove "the" from the title and you get my initial understanding of the post in the home page of HN. I thought it was a piece about the latest sonic screwdriver or something like that.

Re: The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse

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Post by btrettel »

jackmott42 wrote: post #6

Aside from the website being annoying, the story is horrific, a doctor speed running patient interactions with pre canned snippets. Disgusting.

Unfortunately, when managers expect a certain throughput, solutions like this often appear. I saw similar systems when I was a patent examiner at the USPTO. From what I recall being told, the USPTO's "form paragraphs" started out in the DOS era as some WordPerfect macros developed by an examiner, not management. Management defined the quota and examiners came up with creative solutions to meet the quota.

These solutions are symptoms of a broken system. I would not judge the people working within the system for using these solutions (edit: unless someone's quality is exceptionally bad like academic fraudsters as a academics work in a similar metrics-driven environment). Management (and politicians in the case of the USPTO) created the incentives that are the real problem.

Automation like this can be useful to enhance quality, but in my experience at the USPTO, there was a lot of automation they could have used to enhance quality, but they didn't. The incentives to improve speed are far stronger than the incentives to improve quality.

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