doctor refuses to give prescription to buy online

BlackSpinner wrote:

GumbyCT wrote:While I understand the need to block some sites, the users who need legitimate access can be granted permission on their userid logon. I do hope your IT dept wises up. Could it be they simply don't know how to grant the required permissions?

Or the department heads could arrange for the installation of their own wi-fi connections like they did in our company - affectionately referred to as "deathstars". ..

mstevens wrote:When the head of OB-Gyn gets blocked from doing a search on breastfeeding on a given drug because "breast" is apparently too titillating, when I as the head of the Psychiatry department am blocked from sites that discuss street drugs or Facebook after a high-school kid was killed (and the rest of the kids were posting stuff I needed to be able to monitor), or when the head of Pediatrics is blocked from accessing websites with information about kids' summer camps, it's clear that logic is not going to prevail. For a time, our web filter blocked our electronic prescribing software, including while I was doing training for the primary care doctors with the head of IT in attendance. She was, apparently, not in the least embarrassed by that. Keep in mind, all that nonsense is just with our web filter. My neuropsychologist, who does tests that can only be done on a computer, needs many months of lead time to get a simple update to a test done. We have hundreds to thousands of dollars' worth of test software that hasn't even been installed yet.

howkim wrote:Another insanity: When I was working as the librarian for a (now defunct) pharmaceutical company, the IT department blocked access to the FDA website. It was about drugs, you see.

chunkyfrog wrote:I just hate it when I know it's the lazy slob in IT loading the same screening program onto everyone's computer instead of setting up customized permissions.
Sometimes the stupid decisions get made 'upstairs' where the IT guy was unable or unwilling to explain the ramifications to management so they could make an intelligent choice. IT, this rant is for you.

chunkyfrog wrote:explain the ramifications to management so they could make an intelligent choice.

archangle wrote: If you have the speaking ability to explain things to management and have them make an intelligent choice, you wouldn't be working for IT, you'd make a lot more money using your magical hypnotic speaking ability to convince people to just give you money. Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

chunkyfrog wrote:I just hate it when I know it's the lazy slob in IT loading the same screening program onto everyone's computer instead of setting up customized permissions.
Sometimes the stupid decisions get made 'upstairs' where the IT guy was unable or unwilling to explain the ramifications to management so they could make an intelligent choice. IT, this rant is for you.