Judy Faulkner

It was a new major.

I took probably the world's first class in computers and medicine, taught by Dr. Werner Slack.

And he asked me to work with him and his team.

And that's how I got into health care.

Well, the first jobs that they gave me were things that people would spend a lot of time on, and the recipients of what they were doing didn't like it.

So call schedules.

They would say, okay, you work tonight, you work tomorrow night, you work the next night.

And then people would say, you gave me the holiday evening because you don't like me.

They couldn't say that about the computer.

So doing some of that type of work was the beginning.

And then they brought me in and asked me to develop a system that would keep track of patient information.

Over time.

This was at the University of Wisconsin.

So it was more by department, department, department.

So psychiatry, OBGYN, rehab medicine, different groups.

That's correct, yes.

Yes, in fact, I know one doctor whose prescription got turned down because the writing was too legible and they knew it wasn't his.

Well, I thought computer programming was fun and games.

So isn't it neat to get a major that you're working in that is just fun every day to do?

No, I was just doubling down doing the work I was assigned.