On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:55, Merlin Zener wrote: > 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? Doctors demand only the PHD computer (push-here-Dummy) > > -- > Merlin Zener > Piano, Synthesizer > Thailand. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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