Everyone takes their job seriously. It's often a "matter of life and death" as it were.
However, I have to point out that some people's jobs are more directly associated with such things.
Musing on the writing (below), I recalled being the person called in to 'fix' the Heart Scanner. They had a guy on the table, and the damn thing had shut down just as they were taking the picture. It was a server room of twenty-five different interoperable machines. It was my call. I said, "Power them all down and back up."
I had a deep understanding of the concept of 'responsibility' in my job as a result. I had no clue about the problem, or the system's failure, but I knew that the machines would likely survive, while the guy on the table might not. It was a very low-level guess, and none of the medical staff felt willing to take it.
The server farm came back up (in under five minutes, actually), and they got the pictures.
In fairness, I understand how distressed most people are when they simply can't find their documents on their machine, but I see things in a much bigger scope as a result of being exposed to medical software.
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