Re: [Gnumed-devel] Which Distribution - Living in the real word

[Horst Herb]

Gerardo Arnaez wrote:

> true. However. I dont think most doctors are going to
> install anything.  I think this is mostly the IT
> departments and they would be mostly responsible for
> putting in this software. Any Doctor who happens to
> even know about linux at this point at time seems not
> to be average doctor, and could pretty much install an
> distribution. ...   Another way of what I am trying to
> say is that ease of installation is not really going
> to sway what most Doctors are going to use. The IT
> department will decide.

The majority of doctors in most countries actually work in primary care 
(like me): no IT departments here to ut up with, we do what we decide to 
do our selves.
The number of medical software installations in private practice in 
Australia dwarfes installations in hospitals where the IT departments 
rarely ever keep up with newer developments and molest the users with 
antiquated and user hostile concepts.

Horst