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Why are so many doctors technology illiterate? (lemmy.one)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title basically. I’m about midlife crisis age (lol) and I’ve been on computers and technology since I could walk. What is with all these doctors who are barely older than me who can barely use the Internet, don’t know how to type or what an adblocker is? I don’t feel like I can trust a doctor who is ok with malware coming in because they doesn’t run a free adblock or even DNS block. I mean wth?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I couldn't say for sure, but I've seen something similar happen in the few people I know becoming medical doctors or in other doctoral programs. These programs are very intense and incredibly stressful. A truly amazing amount of knowledge is required to complete these programs. I think it's a lot harder to keep abreast of almost any topic that isn't related to your doctorate while in these programs and the pressure to commit the knowledge to memory can easily be overwhelming, which makes some sense, considering the circumstances.

I don't feel being unaware of adware blockers disqualifies someone from doing good medical work, the two simply aren't related. Heck. I'm in sales. Doctors often make terrible sales agents. Should I fault them because they don't understand something that's so simple for me? No, it's a different field I'm glad they know about their expertise well and I don't really need them to understand how to set up a PiHole.

What does concern me is the idea of doctoral students using AI to ease their study burden. I think that could have dire consequences.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

This raises a lot of good points. My brother went through the medical program and probably did more study in his undergraduate/post grad than id be capable of in a lifetime. The workload they do just to get their degree is insane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Its truly maddening. I live with someone doing a non-medical doctorate and I'm good friends with an M.D. student. The amount of time and focus required is astounding. I'm grateful that people take the effort and have the dedication, but, fuck, I need more free time in my life than what can be afforded to these people. Especially during the residency. They treat you so poorly in these programs, it would be called abuse in any other field.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They treat you so poorly in these programs, it would be called abuse in any other field.

Maddening is right on. The fact the so much of the old guard has the “we suffered through it so now you should too” mindset as well. More than once during my brothers residency a senior doctor has attempted to throw him under the bus as well. Credit to them because it’s a solid “no thanks” from me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

And a hell of a lot less sex with your colleagues and superiors than Grey's Anatomy would have you believe!! Though watching that show after seeing people go through doctoral programs makes me feel it's one massive ethics violation and every doctor in that hospital would be fired if they ever audited the place.