November 20, 2008      Share/Bookmark

NOTE FROM DUX:
New computer systems are all the rage in
healthcare these days. But bleeding-edge
technology needs to be supported by someone,
and that someone is IT, the poor suckers.

The Top 6 Reasons Your
Hospital’s IT Team Is Going on Strike

6> Surgical residents decided to prove that removing a RAID Array
from the server was just as easy as doing an appy.

5> So the hot chicks in data entry will appreciate us more!

4> They’re tired of all the “cute” department nick names:
Inflammation Technology, Inflamed Testicles, Insufficient
Testosterone …

3> It’s a protest against the morality of using Vista to run
software critical to the survival of patients.

2> Because the g*ddamn surgical R2s kept bugging them to replace
“Freecell” with “Operation” on all the PCs.

and the Number 1 Reason Your Hospital’s IT Team Is Going on Strike…
1> The Chief of Surgery objected to being redirected to
http://www.ISUCK69.org every time he clicked on the
cafeteria’s lunch menu link.


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Credits:

Selected from 14 submissions from 6 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Melony Lamusk RN, Crenshaw, WI — 1
Kevin van Houten, The Colony, TX — 1
Dawson E. Rambo, NREMT-B, Santa Rosa, CA — 2, 6
G. Griebenow, Johannesburg, S. Africa — 3
Michele Lord, Lincoln, NE — 3
Steve Lunetta, Tucson, AZ — 4, 5
Doug Frank, Crosby, TX — Banner tag
Duxall Inarow RN/NWA, Madison, WI — Psyche! Nurse

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