Software development is a subject that isn’t really understood by the public. It’s being treated as something obscure, technical and nerdy. That’s bad, because it has implications for us physicians. We are living in a technological world and are surrounded by products that all once required a piece of code to make it work. From cars to web applications and MRIs. All of these fields require programmers that make use of syntax to tell the products or programs what to do and what to show. The input, a.k.a. the code, is strict and follows a defined set of rules that enable it to work. Programmers (and equivalently engineers from all walks) are often wrongly treated as necessary elements for any product, yet they are hardly being treated as they deserve to be treated – as the people who make things work and who are eventually responsible for a space shuttle bursting or a website being down. Now I don’t really know how to code, except for some HTML and CSS, but I’ve spent endless hours with both physicians and programmers. What came to my mind recently, is that good physicians run through programms in their head. Apart from being empathic […]