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Why are so many doctors technology illiterate?
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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I worked IT for a decent sized hospital network in a decent sized city for about 5 years, and yeah pretty much universally doctors were terrible with technology. Maybe that's changed somewhat in the 10 years since I was fired by that shithole, but I'm pretty confident in agreeing with OP's assessment.
That said, I wouldn't expect the general public to know about ad blockers or DNS, and doctors would be no exception to that.
I don’t expect the doctors themselves to know DNS or even adblockers for that matter, but at least have the IT infra in place to manage it for them. With all of the HIPAA requirements, I would have thought a more thorough IT practice would be required.