Guilty as charged, I suppose
I’m likely going to do a database-driven “backend” web site for the clinic I’m volunteering for so that they can keep better track of the patients and statistics.
It’s sometimes frustrating that I can’t get away from computers. But I don’t really mind helping them out, since they could really use it and all the money they receive goes towards patient care.
The idea occured to me one night when I had to go through a stack of patient files and make hash marks on another paper to note how many were male, how many were female, Alachua county resident versus non-resident, veteran/non-veteran, prior history of substance abuse, and so on.
As I made my marks, I thought, “there’s gotta be a better way to do this.” Thus the idea of a database.
Which later reminded me of when I came across a discussion about personality types and a description of why programmers fit into the “smart-lazy” category: they’ll spend 24 hours straight writing and perfecting a script so that they never have to do the same 15-minute task by hand ever again.
It’s sometimes frustrating that I can’t get away from computers. But I don’t really mind helping them out, since they could really use it and all the money they receive goes towards patient care.
The idea occured to me one night when I had to go through a stack of patient files and make hash marks on another paper to note how many were male, how many were female, Alachua county resident versus non-resident, veteran/non-veteran, prior history of substance abuse, and so on.
As I made my marks, I thought, “there’s gotta be a better way to do this.” Thus the idea of a database.
Which later reminded me of when I came across a discussion about personality types and a description of why programmers fit into the “smart-lazy” category: they’ll spend 24 hours straight writing and perfecting a script so that they never have to do the same 15-minute task by hand ever again.