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Cake day: October 12th, 2023

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  • I’m not clinical, but I worked in medical IT off and on.

    The shit I would hear from clinical staff.

    Had a senior surgeon call me because his application was frozen. Cool, cool, lets get that going - wait - you’re what - palpating a child’s heart to keep it beating in rhythm? There are back ups upon back ups for anything IT related in that scenario. Don’t call your overnight helpdesk with that shit, have your nurse write it down on paper. Fuck.

    Most traumatic IT call I’ve ever had. Didn’t even care to solve his IT issue, just focused on patient care. My 20 something ass with a few years behind the desk told him to focus on the patient’s LIFE first and foremost, we can talk later.

    Always great for an interview question though - how do you respond under stress? Well, lol…















  • In school, yes.

    Before laptops in every classroom was a thing, I was struggling heavily with hand written assignments.

    I’m dysgraphic. Where dyslexia fucks with input to the brain, dysgraphia fucks with output. Hand writing is the most noticed, but affects typing and speech too. Hitting backspace to fix a word is a lot less consuming than trying to fix mistakes in pen.

    So I got approval to use a laptop. Thankfully my family had the means to provide one.

    Wouldn’t you know it, my grades improved dramatically when the teachers could actually read what I had written.