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Hospital gave sick doctor a special PC for his personal, erm, pleasure

13 points • by Bender • today at 12:54 PM • 9 comments • view on HN

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origini • today at 2:54 PM

I fixed a 'dirty' pc in a small office with 3 people. The offender was one of the two bosses, the other one did not like that.

I added porn filter on there router.

dclavijo • today at 2:59 PM

Watching porn is like doing sex, you should be doing it safely instead of trying to ban it. Education is always the best tool.

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Havoc • today at 2:35 PM

If you hang out in the sysadmin subreddit for a bit you’ll see this a lot. Medical shops somehow have the strictest regulations (HIPAA) yet are the worst run dysfunctional orgs

everybodyknows • today at 2:41 PM

What are the usual attack vectors for that?

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beeforpork • today at 4:11 PM

What was the sickness of the doctor? Does the article tell so? Or does it imply that endulging in adult entertainment is -- ahem -- sick?

kotaKat • today at 2:35 PM

Yep. Happens all the time in healthcare IT. "The doctor is one of our multi-million-dollar revenue generators, so we let it slide" is the excuse. Every time.

I've personally written up a chief radiologist before for it. Zero action, because "he made the facility $6m+ last year" in rural nowhere.

It was actually one of the helpdesk's interview questions - "how do you handle responding to a doctor whose machine is full of porn?"

No wonder years later they got slammed by ransomware.