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Doctors and Nurses are some of the worst to have as clients in IT. This does not surprise me.

It's understandable why they'd be the worst clients though. Imagine training rigorously for a decade without any real pay, and after that you are trying to save lives and suddenly the way you order tests doesn't work anymore for no reason.

I wouldn't have much patience to deal with that. I got 12 complex patients that need shit done for them, and my login don't work because I missed some email, or something updated, or some network thing is down etc etc. Sounds like someone has not done their job well enough and that interrupting my patient care that I dedicated my life to.

I work in IT, hang out with a ton of physicians though, and I absolutely get why they'd be bad clients. They don't got any time to deal with issues.

>Sounds like someone has not done their job well enough and that interrupting my patient care that I dedicated my life to.

off topic but

Nope that's just shit that happens.

Like saying "I want 100% guarantee that my car won't crash ever never ever!!"

Dedicate your life all you want

Doctors are not just jerks to IT, they're often jerks to everyone around them in healthcare setting. Going to school for a decade isn't an excuse to act like that. You don't hear stereotypes of guys working 12 hr days in 100 degree weather being pricks, but you hear it about highly educated doctors all the time.

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