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> then proceeded to claim not to know what DICOM is

98% (made up number) a non-radiologist physician is going to bring up the image on whatever institutional lightweight PACS viewer is provided, and then occasionally in clinic on a disk that has some viewer provided. Not providing a viewer with a disc is kind of a dick move. Most people using smartphones have no idea what HEIC or JPG really is, and why should they?

> this once again confirmed to me that medicine and IT usually exist at opposite ends of a spectrum.

Do you actually know how to read even a chest X-ray or an echocardiogram?

I never quite understood this tech fascination with pointing out/being surprised that specialized experts are not generally deeply familiar with IT. It has little to nothing to do with their everyday jobs.

I don't know of any doctors that would be surprised that an IT worker/engineer cannot properly read a neuro MRI or any other image for that matter. But people here are always surprised when most doctors don't have beyond a lay understanding of computers. I do think the tech crowd tends to have a lot more hubris though. Amateur docs and lawyers seem not to be in short supply around here.