{"id":444,"date":"2015-09-07T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T11:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/?p=444"},"modified":"2015-09-07T07:46:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T11:46:03","slug":"standardizing-things-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/2015\/09\/07\/standardizing-things-my-way\/","title":{"rendered":"standardizing things my way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <cite>The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine&#8217;s Computer Age<\/cite> and ran across a passage that resonated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Everybody, of course, supports standardization&mdash;in theory.  But human beings (particularly, but not exclusively, famous Harvard professors practicing at famous Boston hospitals) want things to be standardized <em>their<\/em> way.  The difficulty that doctors face in accepting a workplace that is not custom-designed around their personal preferences is captured in this old joke about the physician staffs of hospitals: What do you call a 99-1 vote of the medical staff?  A tie.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Examples abound: coding styles, version control systems, code review systems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine&#8217;s Computer Age and ran across a passage that resonated: Everybody, of course, supports standardization&mdash;in theory. But human beings (particularly, but not exclusively, famous Harvard professors practicing at famous Boston hospitals) want things to be standardized their way. The difficulty that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31953,24,5,31954],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nfroyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}