Rekishi

It took me around two months to actually get my uni's Wifi for Avicenna. How pathetic is that? Not that I'm complaining or anything - it's just that my time has been too occupied (being at the hospital is one thing, in slumberland is another...) so I don't have much time to go to the IT Dept to get it to work. The least I was able to do was to submit the registration form after Dr. Jamal showed me Avicenna's MAC address.
Determination can really push one to the extremes. So today, at 4.40pm, 'Izzah and I left the hospital, I sped Miyavi on the road (Don't do it, folks, especially if you're in Kuantan...'coz the selected drivers here could cost you your life or at least your car), then I ran up to my room to grab Avicenna, then it was back speeding to ITD. By then it was past 5 (i.e. past office hours), but they attended to us. Bravo, bravo! So the first man - I know not the name, alas! - tried very hard to get the Wifi running, had some problems with the configuration and authentication, so after several valiant tries, he called his pal - superior? - to do it instead.
...To make a long story short, he succeeded. Kudos! And now Avicenna's ready to surf~!
As gratitude, here's a link to his blog. Very informative, amusing - from the sarcasm, or the play of words - especially to those newbies who want to know how he thinks of laptops and stuff.
...If I ever get around to, I'll put a blogroll or something. Later, like when I have time to re-arrange my hectic life.

But that's not the main reason for blogging. While waiting for them to work on Avicenna, I could not help but to think of how similar his line of duty is to a doctor's.

Basically they work on computers while doctors work on human beings. Of course, computers dying is nowhere near as traumatic or tragic as a human dying but still...

You go to a computer whiz with expectations that he'll get your computer to work. Your computer hasn't been doing what it's supposed to do, and you don't know why. You don't even know the technical terms and how things actually work. You don't even know if you should start blaming yourself if you've had a fair share in causing your computer's ailment.

Likewise, you go to a doctor when you don't feel well. At the end of the visit, you expect that the doctor will tell you what is actually wrong - accurately - and that the doctor will actually do something to solve your current problem. Perhaps, if you're the conscientious type, you'd start regretting for not taking up a healthier lifestyle, cursing all the fast food outlets, lamenting about the oh-so-hot weather which generally doesn't permit you the suitable milieu to exercise outdoors.

Then the experts start asking you for the relevant history. Like, what you were doing when the problem starts manifesting itself. So you talk, unaware if the answers that they are looking for is hidden somewhere in your answer. You assume that the more you talk, the more the doctor will be able to make a head or tail of your current problem. That's History of Present Illness.

Except in my experience with the ITD guys, they didn't ask any questions. They jumped right to Avicenna, asking for my username, password and what I actually did when I idiotically attempted to set the Wifi myself.
But it was only when I let it slip that I submitted two registration forms that they knew what was wrong, and why the authentication has been failing.
So he deleted one registration in the database and all was well.
Moral of the story: If you think a certain detail is too trifling that it could not possibly be the source of your problems, think again.
But based on my experience with the patients in the hospital, that is not necessarily true. If the patients start listing all their problems from A-Z, we students are going to have a merry ride in trying to reach the correct diagnosis.

...This thought came when I recalled that I did think of becoming an IT person once upon a time.

Let's hope that I won't be misusing this luxury any time soon...