In have seen the personal ravages of computer systems that went down...in patient care related issues...some professionals freeze cause there is no preplanned competent work around..sadly, because computers have been given sanction to take over, many, many practitioners have simply forgotten how to calculate doses or remember complex protocols, or are taught that the computer will figure it out and they simply lose proficiency...with dei, crt, and acceptance of poor verbal communication...I expect to see more of this in all fields where the computer rules over intelligent human thought...
Oy.
I had a Rheumatologist I had been seeing for several years. One time when I had an appointment with him, I was sitting in the exam room waiting for him to come in. He walked into the room, took one look at the laptop on the desk that he used to record his office visits, saw that the screen was black, and said: "Oh dear, that doesn't look good." I asked him if he meant the darkened screen, and he said "yes." I told him it was probably just asleep, and I showed him by hitting one of the keys on it, and the log-in screen popped up. He thanked me for "fixing" it. I asked him if he didn't have a computer at home, and he said "yes." I didn't bother to ask him why he didn't know computers go to sleep, and left it at that. It wasn't long after, that the health network was planning on installing a new operating system, and this same doctor related to me how concerned he was about the training he'd have to go through to use it. He was actually scared to death of not being able to successfully complete the training, and ended up retiring so he wouldn't have to deal with it. I was kind of glad to see him go, as it was one less $25 co-pay I wouldn't have to deal with.