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by Zenzero 798 days ago
Imagine telling a doctor how to be a doctor because they "happen to know someone who works in a hospital". Oh how I would love to have you shadow me on the floor for a week.

> If you think the tool is "fisher-price", then why haven't you told the people, who came up with the solution?

Because they react just like you did.

You perfectly demonstrated why I moved over to the software side. The doctors I work with are sick of the hubris from people who don't understand medicine, so we decided that it will take doctors who are willing to learn software development to actually solve our problems. It turns out it's much easier for doctors to learn how to develop software than it is to teach devs how to be doctors.

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Now you make yourself look like a bitter person, since according to you all the software developers in the world will react a certain way and nothing can be done, except you, the holy doctors, showing the devs how to do their job, by becoming developers yourselves!

Meanwhile talking about hubris ...

All the while you could not be bothered to document things and not telling someone who tries to help, where their solution falls down, so that maybe they could improve, but at the same time keeping complaining about "fisher-price". No way they could have any new ideas. You did not have them, so how could they ever have a good idea for improving status quo. How I would have just loved to onboard you onto my engineering team! I am sure you would be great to work with, since sharing information seems to be your strong suit.

It seems very clear to me now, that you did not want things to change as a doctor. Did not want improvement, since nothing these engineer plebs could do would be good enough anyway. And that kind of attitude is exactly what made you part of the problem.

It is clear that what what I just said is being distorted for preserving ego. That does not lead to productive conversation. If this is an active area of interest of yours I would advise you to listen to subject matter experts instead of attempting to lecture them.