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.
I used to have to call docs to ask them what they meant by their computer entered order...it was such a mess...
Their excuse...”I am PC, pre computer”...truth was the computer system was unintuitive and very poorly programmed.
Many docs would not bring their patients to the hospital because they couldn’t figure out the system. The hospital lost many patients. I believe the computer system was one of the many reasons why the hospital chain went bankrupt.