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All of what you've both said, plus the number of people who thought or still think COVID-19 is "no big deal" who now have a pulmonary deficiency and long-term mental fog.
I everytime sayd it's not a big deal. Got my vaccine as it was ready but don't done anything else to don't get it. Now it's 2022, never had COVID, or maybee I don't noticed it. So, yes, not a big deal for me.
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I don’t think productivity was ever the goal of this software. It was to have a record that is standard, digital, transferable, etc. Doctors fought it as long as they could because they knew what it meant for them. I remember pretty early demos in early/mid 2000s when I was doing some clinical grunt work in college. I had written some software to make my department’s life easier so I was offered up as the hospital’s…
They also fought it because they didn't go to medical school and survive residency to fill out forms all damn day—and they didn't used to have to, they had staff for that. Then the computerized systems "replaced" that staff but all that really means is they cut the human time needed low enough that full-time workers weren't needed, but didn't eliminate it, so now that's another thing doctors have to do themselves. AF…
100% agree.
The Office suite is, in some ways, the worst thing that happened to corporations. Thanks to computers, everyone can now easily write a report, fill in a spreadsheet, or manage their meetings. Which means that everyone now has to write reports, fill in spreadsheets and manage their calendars. This used to be a separate job. You had people specializing in those tasks, and they were focused and efficient at it. Now, everyone does it on their own, and not only we suck at this, it's also distracting us from the "main" job we're supposed to be doing.
The older I get, the more I feel computer revolution was in big part a bait-and-switch.
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Also the cries for returning to the office
Literally one of these on the front page of the NYT today, fully of chirpy anecdotes about people ditching the sweatpants and silly comments about how much our dogs will miss us when we go back to "real work". You may kindly shove it, NYT. I'm not going back. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/return-to-offi...
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The difficult part of it is: for some people it is literally nothing. We had it now for the fourth time since 2020 even though we’re properly vaccinated and careful as much as life permits. It’s a bit worse than a cold but much better for than the flu. So, yes, for us life just goes on with COVID. No need to change anything.
That is a problem. It's a dice roll each time a person is infected depending on a huge number of factors including what strain they've been hit with. Reinfections can give worse odds each time. People who got lucky once or twice before might be more careless thinking their luck will continue and end up screwing themselves. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220707/each-covid-19-reinf...
Not necessarily worse, but there is cumulative damage.
In the UK, about 7% of COVID cases that get medical attention are now re-infections. That number increases with time; it was only 4% last February. Immunity from getting COVID is time-limited and not that long. One study said "time between reinfections ranged from 90 to 650 days, with the average being 343 days".
Over a decade, this might gradually debilitate most of the population.
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So what you're saying is HTML5 and server side rendering should be the go to before any client side junk.
I dunno if they are saying that, but I wholeheartedly endorse this idea. Add the "client side junk" (fancy Javascript stuff, etc.) as enhancement on top for those who want it after the required functionality is being properly and reliably served by the "core technologies". Serve the need properly first, then make it "nice".
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Some healthcare provider organizations now employ medical scribes who follow physicians around and do all their EHR data entry. This is expensive, but can be cost effective because then the physicians have more time to perform billable procedures.
If so, that's hilarious, because that's precisely one of the jobs all these expensive, painful-to-use computer systems were supposed to replace. You'd take a year or two course at junior college, to learn shorthand and drill some medical terminology so you'd be less likely to make a bunch of simple transcription mistakes, then go to work.
Remind me again why do I have to manage my own meetings and prepare so many powerpoints and fill in so many forms as a... well, my position doesn't matter, because everyone is doing the same, no matter their role?
I've read that doctors now spend as much as 50% of their time documenting their work. Companies such as Epic, which provide the software that hospitals use to build databases of patient data, have been big winners in the new world of hospitals-depending-on-software. But did the doctors become more productive? By almost any measure, they became less productive. People in tech keep thinking more tech will solve problem…