3 hours ago · Life · 0 comments

Today I went to get my braces adjusted. This doctor did his residency 40 years ago and has been working orthodontics still. His office is a regular doctor's office, not too fancy, but there is something very 90's that I like. This doctor has many organized bookshelfs with patients records in paper. He takes notes of the work he's doing with you by hand. You can only pay in cash or check and they give you a physical little notebook that you get there to write down each payment. The secretary is a young woman that writes everything by hand and then, i guess, at some point she types it to the computer. It is a very analog office that I like, where everything goes slow. But one thing that amazed me when I first went there: They got a 3D scan of mouth in the computer, instead of the usual mold. This gets me to think that we can strive for a balance in tech, what helps, what does not. Why should the doctor get a laptoo/tablet to write if pen and paper work just fine, why have a complicated…

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