▲ | mitchbob 4 days ago | |
Obligatory mention of Atul Gawande's piece in the New Yorker, still a classic: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha... https://web.archive.org/web/20250104014248/https://www.newyo... The fun part is about 4/5 of the way in and starts with > Some people are pushing back. Neil R. Malhotra is a boyish, energetic, forty-three-year-old neurosurgeon who has made his mark at the University of Pennsylvania as something of a tinkerer. He has a knack for tackling difficult medical problems. In the past year alone, he has published papers on rebuilding spinal disks using tissue engineering, on a better way to teach residents how to repair cerebral aneurysms, and on which spinal-surgery techniques have the lowest level of blood loss. When his hospital’s new electronic-medical-record system arrived, he immediately decided to see if he could hack the system. |