Dalai ' s XIIth Law

Some years ago, I created Dalai ' s Laws of PACS, a distillation of my observations of PACS over time. I managed to insult most everyone involved in imaging, including vendors, IT, radiologists, hospital administrators, and probably His Holiness, the Dalai Lama Himself. Ah, those were the days.Perhaps my favorite among the Laws was number XII:Which is graphically illustrated by this photo meant to remind us of some radiologists we know:This Law was inspired by interactions with one of my former partners, now bosses, who happens to be a superb interventional rad. However, not long before I codified the Laws, he called me from a plane about to take off to ask how to adjust the volume on his laptop so his kids could watch a movie. The Law was also prompted by another partner, the one who is not longer with us, having gone to a far, far better place (no, he ' s not dead, he ' s in Florida!) This fellow inflicted upon us a very early advanced visualization program (it could do real-time MPR, and that ' s about it) that had a horrid interface. My friend didn ' t care about the latter, and insisted that we all use this piece of garbage.And so the XIIth Law was born. You might say it is designed to appeal to the least common (technical) denominator, and you would be correct. But that isn ' t necessarily a bad thing. Usually. PACS and associated products are used for life-saving evaluations and they have to work for everyone. Simple, yes?The late, great George Carlin once said, "...
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