I honestly wonder how someone can be such an idiot. How would you go about limiting antibiotics to those with an STI? Would you limit them if it were a case of rape? If not, then how would you prove it?

The most common communicable bacterial STIs can be treated with single dose regimens, so why don't you do some cursory research before disseminating your shit takes.

Use your brain for once, because you're acting like an utter moron. And maybe try to type out normal English. You can't be so lazy as to not be able to type out "you".

> then proceeded to claim not to know what DICOM is

98% (made up number) a non-radiologist physician is going to bring up the image on whatever institutional lightweight PACS viewer is provided, and then occasionally in clinic on a disk that has some viewer provided. Not providing a viewer with a disc is kind of a dick move. Most people using smartphones have no idea what HEIC or JPG really is, and why should they?

> this once again confirmed to me that medicine and IT usually exist at opposite ends of a spectrum.

Do you actually know how to read even a chest X-ray or an echocardiogram?

I never quite understood this tech fascination with pointing out/being surprised that specialized experts are not generally deeply familiar with IT. It has little to nothing to do with their everyday jobs.

I don't know of any doctors that would be surprised that an IT worker/engineer cannot properly read a neuro MRI or any other image for that matter. But people here are always surprised when most doctors don't have beyond a lay understanding of computers. I do think the tech crowd tends to have a lot more hubris though. Amateur docs and lawyers seem not to be in short supply around here.