Saint posted:One ponders how on earth people coped before poota's were around.
Don't come into A&E unless it's a real emergency??
Can the NHS not fix a broken leg without a laptop???
The problem is that part of the point of moving to a digital system is so that you don't have the cost and hassle of maintaining paper data (patients' medical records, in this case). The downside of that is that if anything goes wrong, you can't restore those paper records easily, if at all.
And yes: doctors have been resorting to pen and paper during the current attack.