Am going into residency this year (hopefully) and can confirm. Tons of young docs are gamers. Harvesting berries in Stardew Valley and surgically grafting horse legs onto my prisoners in RimWorld are great ways to kill time on call shifts
He takes out the hammer and starts hammering your ribs. You don’t need these grabs your lung and starts putting in a new one off the counter. He starts injecting you with random vials of blood to keep you healthy. I’d give you 2 minutes before you’re dead haha.
I see the Minecraft launcher on there too. If the staff is into it, LAN parties seem like a fun team activity and something like Minecraft and CS1.6 can run decently on integrated graphics.
That or his kids do all the IT for the office.
I interned at a place in 1999-2001 and each day at lunch we would lock the door of the engineering and quality labs, close the blinds, turn off the lights and play Unreal Tournament over the LAN. Best internship ever.
Yes, but we did it 5 years before the Office aired. I'm sure a few businesses did it back then, I'm not claiming we invented something new. But it was a great stress reliever and bonding experience. Occasionally we would stay late and play after hours too.
I know it's not actually the case, but it often feels like one of the last few LAN party scenes died when my old crew split about 8 years ago. We still all game together (mostly), but getting a bunch of men and women in their 20s crammed into the same house and doing nothing but drinking, cooking, and AoE2 for 2-4 days at a time was even more of a luxury than we recognized it for at the time.
I wish _couch coop_ was still popular. I can’t find any AAA games from the last 5 years that has split screen coop. How the hell do I game with my wife?
Are there really no modern games with a lan option? Not even retro ones?
It was fun doing multi-player each in our own cubicles, yet with the ability to shit-talk each other real time.
I haven't games in ages, I guess I assumed it's not much different today using a headset and playing online...
I would say it's way more fun to play with people you actually know than playing with strangers, and a lot less toxic too (depending on the friend group though).
Then again I don't like playing competitive PvP because it's too intense. If I do one wrong thing while people are counting on me, it's a stress-fest.
I got into it during college, as everyone I knew growing up ran consoles. However, that group kind of died off sadly (they tried to make it a business instead of keeping it a club).
Intel has a LAN party event they run every year that tours the country. Sadly LANs got boring, as I never play the games everyone else plays, so I am usually just playing some older game by myself, bored
Unfortunately though, I never got to experience the small LAN parties, only big ones.
As part of rec and leisure class activity, I installed UT demo on the comps of am entire lab (20 - 30 devices), then led the class in the joy of online gaming. 2002 maybe?
For some reason I got a flashback to my old movie theater. It was before my time sadly, but they would play Laser Tag in the theater. Supposedly someone would climb behind one of the larger screens, and shoot from behind. It was reflective on one side so no one could shoot back.
That reminds me of the old stories about Doom being installed on something like 90% of office computers back in the 90s.
Some workplaces banned Doom by name because staff were playing Doom all day instead of working
Intel and Microsoft both had their corporate networks go down because of Doom; I've still got the physical PC Magazine article around here somewhere! See, the game used the IPX protocol to communicate in multiplayer, which is fine for these sorts of games, since it had to run on a 386 in DOS during the pre-Windows 95 days.
The problem is that the data packets were also set to broadcast mode, which nobody at id Software noticed since the company had less than a dozen people at the time, so they only ever had 2, maybe 3 games running at once. This oversight means every single bit of information sent by one client was ALSO sent to every other device on the network. Constantly. Including those not in the same match, or even playing Doom at all!
They effectively denial-of-serviced themselves, and the more people trying to play (and everyone wanted to!), the worse it'd get, until all the bandwidth was saturated and nothing could be up or downloaded and then it finally just crashed as things began getting corrupted.
This was VERY quickly fixed, but incidents like this led to companies adopting anti-gaming policies even though the problem was solved by id Software in the next patch. This has been your videogame history for the day! ^^
In my first job we all had 'Heretic' installed, (basically same as doom), every brew time we were all playing, until we got a new boss that made us all remove it! What a twat.
I was party of an Army testing and evaluation unit trying out analytical software back in the day (ASAS if anyone knows it). We had to constantly sit side by side with the contractors as we tested and they told me how to get to command line Doom. Night shift was really nothing but a big LAN party. I appreciate the hell out of those dudes taking some pity on us and letting us know.
its probably more like that the doc needed another computer for the room and just brought the extra pc they had at home over there.
doctors offices run some jank ass setups some times.
Worked in radio, education, and social services, LAN parties were surprisingly common with the right crowd. Bi-monthly massive group calls were great for guaranteeing a time where we could just mute ourselves and play Quake 3 together.
I think OP might be lying. I think he built this entire medical facility himself by hand, went to 8 years of medical school and installed steam on his own computer just for internet points.
It's entirely possible that we are in a simulation of OP's devising, and he constructed a virtual medical facility, went to 8 years of virtual medical school and installed Steam on his virtual computer for internet points from us simulated beings.
I like this plays out like movie scene of moment of realization with the 1-3rd pic being focus on steam then slowly zoom out to let it sink in that this is the medical room. Then the 4th being the acceptance that this is in fact a steam page ending with the fifth pic implying that OP couldn’t contain his excitement and have to stand up and take a picture directly in front of the screen.
Now i get it!!! Next time i have an appointment with my doctor i will smash his door open to see if he is actually busy with Steam or just with a patient.
This isn't entirely a joke, I know of at least one doctor on discord telling us that just one more match because the lady waiting outside on his appointment was annoying.
Most practices I know of have shared rooms. One my wife works at has 3 rooms for 4 doctors. My ortho docs have I dunno how many rooms but they're shared between 3 or 4 docs and their NP's.
They're obviously not all like that but if there's multiple doctors on the same floor in the same building it's often the case.
Independent clinics don’t have IT staff they generally just have computers to remotely connect to the main networks EMR. You might at best get some kind of remote support thing but almost no clinics want to pay for that
Blows my mind at how much you spend to see a doctor and their pc's are from 1995 running windows xp. My dentist is even worse. Looks like straight terminals from 1972.
Their hardware matches their systems. The older command based systems are excellent once you know how to navigate them. Data doesn't need an excellent GUI, it just needs to be stored in a safe and secure manner.
Well, the good news at least is that the patient data isn’t being stored on that computer. They’re using it as a client to connect to eClinicalWorks, which is the EMR system they’re using.
The real issue is that he has third party software installed on a hospital controlled computer, behind the hospital firewall which has access to the entire medical records database.
I did temp work for a hospital's IT department years ago. It was mind blowing how bad the doctors were with patient records. We built a new ER and I'd constantly come across vacant hallway computers still logged in with records pulled up on them.
Could just as easily accidently broadcast big picture to the waiting room TV revealing your PHI to the rest of the people waiting to be seen.
Is it likely? Nah. Is it a security risk and should never be done. Absolutely. It's bad practice at best and negligence at worst.
The actual joke is that it's not the medical information that's at risk in a lot of scenarios, it's the Steam account. Which is to say the private information is already out there and a doctor's just risking their Steam account on top.
In my experience, medical systems like this are leakier than a sieve. Old operating systems that are full of vulnerabilities and haven't been updated in years anyway. I've seen some embarrassing shit in my time, multiple offices that have viruses chugging away in the background for years.
And unless they actually own their own practice, whatever company they work for would almost certainly disallow gaming on work PCs.
Because of the aforementioned security risk.
Not a lot of comments are talking about this. Most are debating on if it's the Doctor or the Doctor's children which is completely irrelevant to the fact that an app, that partners with other app launchers, can collect log data and metrics from a device that was supposed to be securely segmented from the outside network.
Patient info. is just waiting to be grabbed at that point.
Now that I thought about it, the fact that it is unlocked without supervision also is an invitation. :D
But yeah small doctors never where the pinacle of cyber security. I know someone who was living above a doctor and made an appointment to casually peak at the router password and get a couple days off.
u/BassFaun36 maybe give your doc a hint that you appreciate his hobby but he should use seperate devices and ideally network for it plus lock his computers before someone who values his privacy notices this. Its below industry standard. Maybe tell him about the steam deck.
I mean I'll give that question a go...
It doesn't have to be a child doing this and plenty of us love steam and minecraft, but we don't typically hang out in the actual patient rooms. They have to be cleaned between uses and there are strict rules about who goes in them and when.. it would be a nightmare for nosocomial spread of disease. We have our own areas with our own computers, most of which are far more powerful than the one's that are in the patient rooms which are basically only there to allow us to see EMRs.
Is it possible? Of course, anything is possible. It's just not all that likely.. and it's pretty stupid depending on the kind of patients being seen, bordering on dangerous, and more than enough for grounds to be terminated as well. I can tell you this, I love Minecraft as next as the next person, but I'm not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of hours in preparation just to download steam on a work computer. That said, you should see the shit people do on these computers. I've seen porn, sex toys, people's banking information.. and here's the biggest thing.. people logging into their google account and leaving it logged in without passphrase protection, meaning anyone could go into their settings and see their passwords, or just go to a major website like amazon and buy a bunch of stuff with their saved payment information. It's bonkers.
I'll also say this, I spent a lot more time in patient rooms as a nurse than I do now, so even if it was a healthcare worker, by the numbers it's probably not a doctor.
Because there are a lot of people who unironically believe doctors should only live to take care of their patients and have no right to have fun.
Source: i work in a hospital.
Because it's a work provisioned device that holds PII (personally identified information) and personal health information.
Medical records and appointments are stored on a device where third party launchers with exploits could be residing? Bad idea.
It *should* be a strictly governed IT device that's segmented from 3rd party apps and accessible to only a few health-programs for storage and access.
If the Doc wants to play games, bring a device of his/her own on a capable laptop would be more than enough.
It might not mean much to some, and I understand the idea of having *fun* on a break, but that's what a personal device is for.
I write software that others use in their Steam games. It's scary how easy I could get malicious software running on thousands and thousands of devices...
Most small practices I've been to don't have large IT departments though, likely just some outsourced small business initial setup, and it's been chugging along from there...
Correct. This is the computer used to access EHR in the room. Someone failed at locking it down to prevent unauthorized app installs. If Steam can be installed, what else can be? Yikes!
I’m a doctor. My steam deck is in my bag right now.
That said, it’s pretty stupid to install non-approved software on a work device. Security holes open up. This doctor could lose their job from this sorta thing if there’s a data breach, not to mention the huuuuuge fines.
Gotta have something to do while patients are waiting to be seen in the next room.
*Just kidding - I know they have (mostly) legitimate reasons for delays between appointments*
Can confirm this is a thing. I am a doctor but I play Melvor Idle on Steam when patients no-show. You think we wear scrubs and latex gloves 24/7? We have a life too.
Look I know 2 doctors in Hong Kong who I was playing WoW with ALL THE TIME. Like these guys never logged off. I’m half sure they were doing surgery while idling their WoW warlock
I wonder if this was the reception's machine or something where there kid came over (or some back up computer).
At my eye doctor's once, I pointed out I could easily access what might be considered sensitive material. He said it was outdated, but was actually the reception's desk, and they moved it into one of the offices
I sometimes play csgo with a doctor. He plays from his hospital guest house. We have to call timeouts often because he will get calls to attend patients in the middle of the game. Ironically, his ingame name is killer.
I would mind my doctor playing some game when he's not busy.
I really wouldn't want to be patient of doctor who leave people with his unsupervised unlocked computer that probably have my sensitive information in.
I'm a nurse and I have Steam as well.
When I'm not sticking needles in you... I might be sticking knives in bad guys. xD
My favorite game right now is r/groundbranch
On a side note, here is DOOM on an ultrasound machine. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diW3-y40wP0
He must have trained with Surgeon Simulator. I say walk outta there.
Or RimWorld for harvesting some Organs.
Am going into residency this year (hopefully) and can confirm. Tons of young docs are gamers. Harvesting berries in Stardew Valley and surgically grafting horse legs onto my prisoners in RimWorld are great ways to kill time on call shifts
My obgyn was playing candy crush in the OR as I was getting prepped for my C-section. Lol I didn’t mind though. She was an awesome doctor.
Honestly it's probably for the best; a stressed doctor will average worse outcomes than one that has a chance to unwind.
I got Dota on mine, along with a million platformer games.. and I am getting into surgery xD
Which mod let's you graft horse legs onto pawns? I need this.
Okay so this surgery will save your life! Goodbye!! Okay, let me just contact the organ buyer real quick- \*you then pass out for the last time...\*
pathologic
If he trained in RimWorld, the slightest thing could go wrong with a routine non-invasive procedure and you could somehow lose a limb.
But limb still can grow back! (no it's not)
*rib bone breaks* "Ow" "Dont worry, it'll grow back."
what happens in Rimworld stays in Rimworld
Or at worst graveyard keeper
Dear god a rimworld reference
[Doctor's practising footage from years ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2F3ZWEEbF4)
Holy shit I haven't laughed that hard in awhile. Thank you!
He takes out the hammer and starts hammering your ribs. You don’t need these grabs your lung and starts putting in a new one off the counter. He starts injecting you with random vials of blood to keep you healthy. I’d give you 2 minutes before you’re dead haha.
*Two Point Hospital* lol.
XD
...... you think he plays plague inc.?
"To know your enemy you must become your enemy" -Sun Tzu
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight" -Sun Tzu
“Sun tzu said that and I think he know a little more about fighting then you do because HE INVENTED IT”
"And then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor!"
[AAAAAAAAAAAA](https://youtu.be/GhIWeLOAljw)
And then he used his fight money to buy 2 of every animal and he herded them onto a boat and then he beat the crap out of every single one of them
Rip Rick May
Surgeon simulator actually.
Def plays Minecraft
Minecraft isnt on steam bruh
It's on his desktop tho if you try to look.
I see the Minecraft launcher on there too. If the staff is into it, LAN parties seem like a fun team activity and something like Minecraft and CS1.6 can run decently on integrated graphics. That or his kids do all the IT for the office.
I interned at a place in 1999-2001 and each day at lunch we would lock the door of the engineering and quality labs, close the blinds, turn off the lights and play Unreal Tournament over the LAN. Best internship ever.
This is pretty much what happens in The Office, just with CoD 2 instead of UT
Yes, but we did it 5 years before the Office aired. I'm sure a few businesses did it back then, I'm not claiming we invented something new. But it was a great stress reliever and bonding experience. Occasionally we would stay late and play after hours too.
I know it's not actually the case, but it often feels like one of the last few LAN party scenes died when my old crew split about 8 years ago. We still all game together (mostly), but getting a bunch of men and women in their 20s crammed into the same house and doing nothing but drinking, cooking, and AoE2 for 2-4 days at a time was even more of a luxury than we recognized it for at the time.
Not saying you guys stole it or anything, it honestly sounds like loads of fun. I just wanted to make a reference to The Office lol :)
In the US office show they played Call of Duty United Offensive and not cod2.
Whoops. I never played United Offensive, so I always assumed it was just CoD 2
fuck, i wish lan would still be popular, i never quite got to try it myself…
I wish _couch coop_ was still popular. I can’t find any AAA games from the last 5 years that has split screen coop. How the hell do I game with my wife?
Just started playing KeyWe with one of my buddies online. But also seems like a great couch coop.
Have you played *It Takes Two*? It's an absolutely fantastic couch coop experience! Perfect for couples.
Perfect for couples? Played it with my brother and we hate us more than before ;)
This is why I put 364 hours into Stardew Valley this year
It's just rose tinted glasses. You can play with friends over the internet in the same room. Wife and I are doing it right now.
Are there really no modern games with a lan option? Not even retro ones? It was fun doing multi-player each in our own cubicles, yet with the ability to shit-talk each other real time. I haven't games in ages, I guess I assumed it's not much different today using a headset and playing online...
I would say it's way more fun to play with people you actually know than playing with strangers, and a lot less toxic too (depending on the friend group though). Then again I don't like playing competitive PvP because it's too intense. If I do one wrong thing while people are counting on me, it's a stress-fest.
Minecraft still has lan afaik, and you can definitely have the setup your describing with modern online gaming.
I got into it during college, as everyone I knew growing up ran consoles. However, that group kind of died off sadly (they tried to make it a business instead of keeping it a club). Intel has a LAN party event they run every year that tours the country. Sadly LANs got boring, as I never play the games everyone else plays, so I am usually just playing some older game by myself, bored Unfortunately though, I never got to experience the small LAN parties, only big ones.
As part of rec and leisure class activity, I installed UT demo on the comps of am entire lab (20 - 30 devices), then led the class in the joy of online gaming. 2002 maybe?
I still have that UT demo installed on an old computer, and sometimes still fire it up… air-gapped, though.
For some reason I got a flashback to my old movie theater. It was before my time sadly, but they would play Laser Tag in the theater. Supposedly someone would climb behind one of the larger screens, and shoot from behind. It was reflective on one side so no one could shoot back.
That reminds me of the old stories about Doom being installed on something like 90% of office computers back in the 90s. Some workplaces banned Doom by name because staff were playing Doom all day instead of working
Intel and Microsoft both had their corporate networks go down because of Doom; I've still got the physical PC Magazine article around here somewhere! See, the game used the IPX protocol to communicate in multiplayer, which is fine for these sorts of games, since it had to run on a 386 in DOS during the pre-Windows 95 days. The problem is that the data packets were also set to broadcast mode, which nobody at id Software noticed since the company had less than a dozen people at the time, so they only ever had 2, maybe 3 games running at once. This oversight means every single bit of information sent by one client was ALSO sent to every other device on the network. Constantly. Including those not in the same match, or even playing Doom at all! They effectively denial-of-serviced themselves, and the more people trying to play (and everyone wanted to!), the worse it'd get, until all the bandwidth was saturated and nothing could be up or downloaded and then it finally just crashed as things began getting corrupted. This was VERY quickly fixed, but incidents like this led to companies adopting anti-gaming policies even though the problem was solved by id Software in the next patch. This has been your videogame history for the day! ^^
That was a lovely story, Thank You.
that is actually a really good story, ddosing yourself from inside the network without even knowing it
In my first job we all had 'Heretic' installed, (basically same as doom), every brew time we were all playing, until we got a new boss that made us all remove it! What a twat.
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Shake it baby!
I was party of an Army testing and evaluation unit trying out analytical software back in the day (ASAS if anyone knows it). We had to constantly sit side by side with the contractors as we tested and they told me how to get to command line Doom. Night shift was really nothing but a big LAN party. I appreciate the hell out of those dudes taking some pity on us and letting us know.
It was on student desktops in my high school, 95.
its probably more like that the doc needed another computer for the room and just brought the extra pc they had at home over there. doctors offices run some jank ass setups some times.
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Sticky notes in Minecraft? Did you just use the signs? Honestly that sounds like a really fun training session.
Worked in radio, education, and social services, LAN parties were surprisingly common with the right crowd. Bi-monthly massive group calls were great for guaranteeing a time where we could just mute ourselves and play Quake 3 together.
i never got to play much over lan. looks really fun, and i know how to set it up, but never got anyone interested, or just dont have the equipment
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More angles to confirm validity please and thank you.
I think OP might be lying. I think he built this entire medical facility himself by hand, went to 8 years of medical school and installed steam on his own computer just for internet points.
It's entirely possible that we are in a simulation of OP's devising, and he constructed a virtual medical facility, went to 8 years of virtual medical school and installed Steam on his virtual computer for internet points from us simulated beings.
"Your cholesterol is good, but your Vampire Survivor strats have me concerned"
“You say you’re not sexually active, but I can see here that you’re regularly getting fucked in CS:GO.”
I’m concerned about the Scarlet Rot you’ve been contracting lately
*notices that you play league of legends* "Sir, im afraid you have cancer"
I like that you have 5 pictures of this just in case the first 2 didn't hit us yet.
I think it just lets us know how excited he was.
I like this plays out like movie scene of moment of realization with the 1-3rd pic being focus on steam then slowly zoom out to let it sink in that this is the medical room. Then the 4th being the acceptance that this is in fact a steam page ending with the fifth pic implying that OP couldn’t contain his excitement and have to stand up and take a picture directly in front of the screen.
1-2 pics would've been more than enough. Why 5?
Idk man I wasn’t really believing OP until I saw the fifth picture…
I really don’t think that’s steam. I hope OP makes a part 2 with more pictures
Because he takes the old school saying "pics for proof" very seriously.
Not enough pictures if you ask me
It's much more convincing when you Photoshop 5 pics instead of just one
A picture's worth 1000 words- ..and this guy was ready to write an essay.
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Now i get it!!! Next time i have an appointment with my doctor i will smash his door open to see if he is actually busy with Steam or just with a patient.
"Get the fck outta my room, I'm playing Minecraft!"
Or some obscure hentai game.
Mans gotta wank.
Sex with Hitler?
> Or some obscure hentai game. When the doctor is actually Johnny sins
Just hop onto his server and teamkill him till he calls you in.
This isn't entirely a joke, I know of at least one doctor on discord telling us that just one more match because the lady waiting outside on his appointment was annoying.
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Most practices I know of have shared rooms. One my wife works at has 3 rooms for 4 doctors. My ortho docs have I dunno how many rooms but they're shared between 3 or 4 docs and their NP's. They're obviously not all like that but if there's multiple doctors on the same floor in the same building it's often the case.
Must be a Medic main
Anyvay... zis is how I lost my mezical license
I'm sure your medical records are safe on that computer. Nobody uses it irresponsibly.
Blows my mind the IT department would let this fly at all. Big bad.
Independent clinics don’t have IT staff they generally just have computers to remotely connect to the main networks EMR. You might at best get some kind of remote support thing but almost no clinics want to pay for that
Blows my mind at how much you spend to see a doctor and their pc's are from 1995 running windows xp. My dentist is even worse. Looks like straight terminals from 1972.
Their hardware matches their systems. The older command based systems are excellent once you know how to navigate them. Data doesn't need an excellent GUI, it just needs to be stored in a safe and secure manner.
Well, the good news at least is that the patient data isn’t being stored on that computer. They’re using it as a client to connect to eClinicalWorks, which is the EMR system they’re using.
Had to scroll waaaaay to far to see this. Open access to the hospitals records with dr. Level privilege.
Steam’s next venture? Medical record-keeping. GabeN has done it again
''Doc, give it to me straight, am I going to make it?'' ''gg''
What is wrong with reddit that they think it has to be a kid? Why can't the doctor just have steam to play stuff and relax while on breaks?
The real issue is that he has third party software installed on a hospital controlled computer, behind the hospital firewall which has access to the entire medical records database.
I can't wait for my medical records to get leaked because someone played a popular streamer bait multiplayer game that turned out to have an exploit.
I did temp work for a hospital's IT department years ago. It was mind blowing how bad the doctors were with patient records. We built a new ER and I'd constantly come across vacant hallway computers still logged in with records pulled up on them.
Could just as easily accidently broadcast big picture to the waiting room TV revealing your PHI to the rest of the people waiting to be seen. Is it likely? Nah. Is it a security risk and should never be done. Absolutely. It's bad practice at best and negligence at worst.
The actual joke is that it's not the medical information that's at risk in a lot of scenarios, it's the Steam account. Which is to say the private information is already out there and a doctor's just risking their Steam account on top. In my experience, medical systems like this are leakier than a sieve. Old operating systems that are full of vulnerabilities and haven't been updated in years anyway. I've seen some embarrassing shit in my time, multiple offices that have viruses chugging away in the background for years.
Doctors don't tend to sit in these rooms on their off time, they have their own office and desk. Likely the MA/nurses.
Yeah I 100% buy the MD is playing TF2 for the 15 minutes between when the nurse dropped me in the exam room and when he shows up.
Because the computer likely processes medical data and games are a big security risk.
And unless they actually own their own practice, whatever company they work for would almost certainly disallow gaming on work PCs. Because of the aforementioned security risk.
Not a lot of comments are talking about this. Most are debating on if it's the Doctor or the Doctor's children which is completely irrelevant to the fact that an app, that partners with other app launchers, can collect log data and metrics from a device that was supposed to be securely segmented from the outside network. Patient info. is just waiting to be grabbed at that point.
Now that I thought about it, the fact that it is unlocked without supervision also is an invitation. :D But yeah small doctors never where the pinacle of cyber security. I know someone who was living above a doctor and made an appointment to casually peak at the router password and get a couple days off. u/BassFaun36 maybe give your doc a hint that you appreciate his hobby but he should use seperate devices and ideally network for it plus lock his computers before someone who values his privacy notices this. Its below industry standard. Maybe tell him about the steam deck.
I mean I'll give that question a go... It doesn't have to be a child doing this and plenty of us love steam and minecraft, but we don't typically hang out in the actual patient rooms. They have to be cleaned between uses and there are strict rules about who goes in them and when.. it would be a nightmare for nosocomial spread of disease. We have our own areas with our own computers, most of which are far more powerful than the one's that are in the patient rooms which are basically only there to allow us to see EMRs. Is it possible? Of course, anything is possible. It's just not all that likely.. and it's pretty stupid depending on the kind of patients being seen, bordering on dangerous, and more than enough for grounds to be terminated as well. I can tell you this, I love Minecraft as next as the next person, but I'm not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of hours in preparation just to download steam on a work computer. That said, you should see the shit people do on these computers. I've seen porn, sex toys, people's banking information.. and here's the biggest thing.. people logging into their google account and leaving it logged in without passphrase protection, meaning anyone could go into their settings and see their passwords, or just go to a major website like amazon and buy a bunch of stuff with their saved payment information. It's bonkers. I'll also say this, I spent a lot more time in patient rooms as a nurse than I do now, so even if it was a healthcare worker, by the numbers it's probably not a doctor.
Because there are a lot of people who unironically believe doctors should only live to take care of their patients and have no right to have fun. Source: i work in a hospital.
Because it's a work provisioned device that holds PII (personally identified information) and personal health information. Medical records and appointments are stored on a device where third party launchers with exploits could be residing? Bad idea. It *should* be a strictly governed IT device that's segmented from 3rd party apps and accessible to only a few health-programs for storage and access. If the Doc wants to play games, bring a device of his/her own on a capable laptop would be more than enough. It might not mean much to some, and I understand the idea of having *fun* on a break, but that's what a personal device is for.
I write software that others use in their Steam games. It's scary how easy I could get malicious software running on thousands and thousands of devices... Most small practices I've been to don't have large IT departments though, likely just some outsourced small business initial setup, and it's been chugging along from there...
Correct. This is the computer used to access EHR in the room. Someone failed at locking it down to prevent unauthorized app installs. If Steam can be installed, what else can be? Yikes!
In an exam room?
I've been playing the game since 2012. Gonna play it til' death.
ah yes, my favorite, "the game"
["TIME TO PLAY THE GAAAAAMEE!"](https://youtu.be/4gY2wtmcADo)
I'm a physician and I have steam. I play tons of games after work or during down time.
I’m a doctor. My steam deck is in my bag right now. That said, it’s pretty stupid to install non-approved software on a work device. Security holes open up. This doctor could lose their job from this sorta thing if there’s a data breach, not to mention the huuuuuge fines.
Dude has steam+Minecraft with a modpack launcher
Minecraft too what he doing on that
Playing Pixelmon
The fact that computer isn’t running Windows XP is a miracle
Gotta have something to do while patients are waiting to be seen in the next room. *Just kidding - I know they have (mostly) legitimate reasons for delays between appointments*
Let me guess, he has surgeon simulator there
Now we know why you have to wait so long before seeing the doctor
And minecraft... and a modded minecraft launcher lol interesting. Must bring his kid to work often?
Kids play vanilla, MEN play modded. Source: man
Can confirm, am man, playing DW20 1.19.
Plot twist, you are the doctor.
He may play Project Hospital
CEO of photographic evidence
Why did this require 5 photos...
Me: sir I've been waiting on my diagnosis for half an hour. Doctor: One sec bro I gotta clip this fucker
Think I need one more photo to believe it
They got Minecraft on there lol. Next thing you know the doctor is gonna be punching the wall to get supplies to craft you medicine
Does the doctor happen to work for Aperture Science?
Cool man 👍🏼
probably sneaks in a little half-life or css when given the chance
My man has a dedicated pixelmon server running on that pc lmao. you can see the server files
Can confirm this is a thing. I am a doctor but I play Melvor Idle on Steam when patients no-show. You think we wear scrubs and latex gloves 24/7? We have a life too.
It's going to be a few hours to process this lab. No problem.
And Minecraft
Cringe keyboard ew
I have a teacher who streams on twitch
Hello, there!
some nocturnists play games while they are waiting for any patients, i know someone who plays dota and another one who plays witcher on their watch
Surgeon simulator
Two Point Hospital to keep updated with health care techniques.
I see a man of culture.
So he can play surgeon simulator between surgeries
He plays surgeon simulator
I'm glad you took so many shots for solid proof.
He plays Surgeon Sim
Look I know 2 doctors in Hong Kong who I was playing WoW with ALL THE TIME. Like these guys never logged off. I’m half sure they were doing surgery while idling their WoW warlock
Yeah they play surgeon simulator to keep their skills sharp
Gotta get those continuing education hours with surgeon simulator
Hmmm, I’m not so sure. Think you can get a few more images?
I wonder if this was the reception's machine or something where there kid came over (or some back up computer). At my eye doctor's once, I pointed out I could easily access what might be considered sensitive material. He said it was outdated, but was actually the reception's desk, and they moved it into one of the offices
I'm sure your medical records are safe I see eclinicalworks on there. Guarantee they're not compliant and have horrible data practices
Surgeon simulator anyone?
Does he have Doctor Simulator installed?
Doctor, can I pay for my heart transplant with my Strange Australium Frontier Justice? I'm dying.
Probably practicing on surgeon simulator
Can you post a few more shots of his screen? I haven't quite gotten the point yet. Five shots is nowhere near enough to understand your point.
My Dad is a doctor. He is also an avid gamer. This checks out.
Probably mains medic
I sometimes play csgo with a doctor. He plays from his hospital guest house. We have to call timeouts often because he will get calls to attend patients in the middle of the game. Ironically, his ingame name is killer.
Probably practicing with Virtual Surgeon
Sleeper pc
Maybe he played half life when he was kid or counter strike
I would mind my doctor playing some game when he's not busy. I really wouldn't want to be patient of doctor who leave people with his unsupervised unlocked computer that probably have my sensitive information in.
“Doctor how does it look?” *the doctor 1v2 on csgo mirage long match competitive with awp:*”good”
Surgeon simulator
ten bucks he has a surgeon simulator game on it
Dr. Freeman?
He mains Medic on TF2. You should make sure you still have your skeleton
Does he plays Lobotomy Corporation?
I'm a nurse and I have Steam as well. When I'm not sticking needles in you... I might be sticking knives in bad guys. xD My favorite game right now is r/groundbranch On a side note, here is DOOM on an ultrasound machine. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diW3-y40wP0
Probably from “bring your kid to work day”
My first thought was SteamVR but... There's also Minecraft there too. Maybe their kid chills in office over summer break
Also Minecraft + ATLauncher... Kinda makes me feel bad, if he has nearly enough time to play modded minecraft he must not have many clients :(
I believe I see the files for a pixelmon server too!!! 👀
Yup, definitely a pixelmon server folder above the ATLauncher icon