My Day Job

[dr_deadmeat]

So I was in the GP surgery today, unusually for a Monday. I had volunteered to go in as some man was coming in to demonstrate a new piece of software they want us to use. Usually my job is essentially to translate computer blah into doctor- and staff-friendly words of two syllables or less; however this bloke was actually very good at what he did

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[sticklebrick]

aaargh. i really, truly feel for you. i absolutely LOVE technology and it just breaks my heart to see it used to create less efficiency, not more...

[dr_deadmeat]

I'm not even a computery person particularly, but 99% of medical staff are much much less so, and it's actually useful to be a kind of lay-person as the Health Authority computer engineers will just steam in, fix stuff up and not explain to anyone what they're doing on the whole... Just from home tinkering and a bit of common sense I know enough to stay on top of it... I just started there doing a fill-in job for 6 months helping out with patient mailing list databases and stuff, and kept finding stuff that I could fix / improve / explain better, so I created the job for myself essentially. I don't know what to do with it really - I'm starting my MA in a couple of weeks so the regular income is going to be helpful though I could quite easily jack it in if I started doing one more DJ gig a week... but as with everyone in the NHS there's a bit of a sense of guilt/duty tying me to it... hmm...

[uncledisgusting]

heh - i work for bt running projects on national spine.

i feel your pain.

[frecklescorp]

The longer I live and the more jobs I do, the more I have come to realise that the whole fucking world is held together with some cut price sticking plaster. Whether it's useless people, unnecessary bureaucracy or endless and inaccurate systems, it's amazing anything gets done, EVER.