It really applies to every industry -- people push back against things that they see as impediments to their work. Many/most HN visitors are software developers, and if you've worked in a Fortune 500 virtually all of us have gone to war with IT. "Don't they understand that we're special and we need special rights and privileges" etc. And often we have legitimate grievances because often arbitrary, counter-productive, productivity-sapping restrictions weigh us down. Often they're illusions of security.

And I'm sure on some IT admin board they talk about all of those entitled developers and this one time this one developer did something really stupid, ergo all developers are god-complex dummies.

Have you worked with doctor's? When I did I'd routinely sit in a room with 10-25 people and wait for hours on a doctor to show up to a meeting they'd schedule onlu to be told by a secretary he was busy. Everyone I know who has worked with doctor's has similar stories.

This hasn't happened to me with any other position in any other organization, including vice presidents of Fortune 500 companies.

I'm not claiming that doctors are interchangeable with other careers. Doctors often have higher priorities that can absolutely intrude at any time: An emergent medical situation is far more important than a meeting about document retention, for instance. For that VP, or CEO for that matter, those meetings are a major priority of their job.

Instead I was pointing out that there are many fields where people resist IT-style policies, and many special snowflakes that believe (often rightly) that they are a unique situation.

Often in tales like this the worst scenarios arise because some people aren't equipped at managing expectations and communicating reasons and benefits. If yet another vendor comes in with yet another system and yet another set of demands and obligations, to someone who sees it as a hindrance to their work product there will be resistance. Understanding and communicating in a way that, to use lame corporate speak, aligns goals makes things go much smoother.

Sorry I didn't mean to make the argument that doctor's are unique in pushing against IT policies.

But they do push back uniquely hard. My experience and almost everyone I've talked to in Medical IT have had the same experience. Have you had a different one?

The difference is there's usually only 1 CEO, but in a medical organization there can be 1000's of doctors.