Not smart at computers, but maybe they are smart about computers. Everyone thinks old people can’t use tech but what if they don’t want to and that resistance is a manifestation of wisdom that’s incomprehensible to those without the same wisdom. To believe doctors as a class of people are less intelligent than average is silly and probably ego defensive. As a group doctors are of above average intelligence and certainly smarter than most of the people they work with in IT.
I think it’s the academic and professional institutions that are most culpable for the current state of things. They should have been the ones who foisted tech requirements on doctors, instead it was done through federal regulation. Most of the blame for most of today’s problems comes back to universities. If using tech is part of the job if being a doctor, then make it so from inside the profession.
There are different types of intelligence. Both fields require totally different talent, interests and skills. One is solving very abstract problems, the other is talking to people and learning a huge amount of information about how humans work.
I am good with abstract stuff, but in no way I could remember that amount of information about people as doctors too. I still have no idea what most of my bones or other things within me are named and I have zero interest in it. I can imagine one could be also the other way around. Have huge amount of interest in people, but despise techy knowledge.
In the end both doctors and it workers are so different from each other that they have so much trouble understanding one another. Remember doctors never asked for all this abstract shit. Also as you age you will get more set in the field you choose. That is just the way people work. Not an excuse or why one should not keep improving themselves.
I think it’s the academic and professional institutions that are most culpable for the current state of things. They should have been the ones who foisted tech requirements on doctors, instead it was done through federal regulation. Most of the blame for most of today’s problems comes back to universities. If using tech is part of the job if being a doctor, then make it so from inside the profession.