A lot of doctors I speak to think they’re “bad at tech”.
They’re not.
They were just never taught how modern technology actually works.
The key to understanding adjacent and exponentially growing fields like HealthTech and MedTech.
The real problem
Medicine teaches us:
clinical reasoning
pattern recognition
decision-making under uncertainty
Technology education teaches:
syntax first
tools before context
abstractions without relevance
That mismatch creates unnecessary fear.
What “technical foundations” actually means
You don’t need to become a software engineer.
But you do need to understand:
how data is stored (not just displayed)
how systems pass information to each other
why spreadsheets break
why IT teams say “it’s not that simple”
Once that clicks, everything changes.
Why this matters now
Healthcare is being redesigned around:
data
automation
AI-assisted workflows
Doctors will either:
shape these systems
orinherit decisions made without them
What’s coming next
In the next issue, I’ll explain what “coding” actually looks like in real healthcare work, and why most online courses get it wrong.
Haseeb