I said rigid computer software controlling humans is a violation of human dignity. Nobody ever said that about checklists. I'll never understand the resistance to them, they're extremely useful tools.
Your article touches on an interesting point:
> I also think this culture is generational
> my experience with younger doctors in training is that they readily, even eagerly, adopt systems that help them avoid mistakes.
> They never knew a day when medicine was not so horrifically complex and ever changing that physicians could not use some external help to aid their inadequate brains.
Certainly matches my experience at least. I will use literally any resource I can to prevent mistakes of any sort. Computers are a huge force multiplier as everyone here knows. My computer knowledge is extremely useful in this field. Just being able to touch type swiftly already gives me enough of an edge.
I refuse to accept poorly designed software getting in the way of work. I don't know how this Epic software works but where I work using an EMR system has been a terrible experience every single time. They fail at every usability principle that's ever been posted and discussed here on HN. Last month I dealt with one shitty system that had 2 second latency while typing, nobody was able to get any work done and all the problems went away after they all fell back to writing notes in Word or even Notepad. I actually debugged and fixed the problem in a couple hours but at that point nobody really gave a shit anymore because they had already moved on with their lives.
Your article touches on an interesting point:
> I also think this culture is generational
> my experience with younger doctors in training is that they readily, even eagerly, adopt systems that help them avoid mistakes.
> They never knew a day when medicine was not so horrifically complex and ever changing that physicians could not use some external help to aid their inadequate brains.
Certainly matches my experience at least. I will use literally any resource I can to prevent mistakes of any sort. Computers are a huge force multiplier as everyone here knows. My computer knowledge is extremely useful in this field. Just being able to touch type swiftly already gives me enough of an edge.
I refuse to accept poorly designed software getting in the way of work. I don't know how this Epic software works but where I work using an EMR system has been a terrible experience every single time. They fail at every usability principle that's ever been posted and discussed here on HN. Last month I dealt with one shitty system that had 2 second latency while typing, nobody was able to get any work done and all the problems went away after they all fell back to writing notes in Word or even Notepad. I actually debugged and fixed the problem in a couple hours but at that point nobody really gave a shit anymore because they had already moved on with their lives.