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I would be more likely to say that, then he need be a physician with management skills. I think Dan made this point already in his post. I have tremendous respect for physicians having grown up in that field. But they tend to be so smart that they get themselves in trouble, or have trouble knowing their limitations. I say that with all respect. I think this case showed that the IT staff was lacking some checks and balances, or just proper procedures that most networking engineers might have brought to the table. There are a lot of physicians that get themselves in trouble flying planes too, as evident by some of the nicknames given to some of the high performance planes. At some point networks become complicated enough that experts need to be brought in. A manager knows when to delegate and I think it's important to have good people to delegate to. There are plenty of specialists in the medical field, so this is not a new concept. At 23:43 +0200 11/29/02, Rafi Sadowsky wrote: ## On 2002-11-29 15:05 -0600 Daniel Golding typed: DG> DG> DG> Yes, I read his bio. I'm sure he's quite the techie amongst his fellow DG> physicans, and I think thats a great thing. However, its more than just a DG> bad idea to put someone who isn't completely proficient in a job like this DG> - its bad for the patients. If you want to run a shoe company, and put a DG> shoe salesman with a couple linux boxes in charge of your network, more DG> power to you. However, if you run a huge hospital, at which, there are DG> numerous patient affecting IT systems, you really have an obligation to DG> hire a professional, rather than a talented amateur, with all due respect DG> to the good doctor. Hi Daniel, Are you suggesting that a CIO at a "huge hospital"(or any other enterprise) Needs to be an expert at LAN/WAN networking, Systems, DBA & Security Rather than a management expert that has a good grasp of the basic IT issues and understands the core business needs of the enterprise ? -- Rafi
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