> Hospital computers should not be connected to the internet.
But then how will doctors google the patients' symptoms?
If your answer is "they should already know all that is required to do their job without looking it up online", then consider whether you hold yourself to the same standard. I don't.
If the admin computers aren't connected to the internet, how do patients interact with the administrative staff, for things like appointments, referrals, etc.? If the x-ray processing isn't connected to the internet, how do the x-rays & the radiologist's evaluation end up in the patient's record, or in a place where the patient can download their imaging results?
It is hard to make assumptions about what parent means by that statement, given that there are degrees in which a system can be "connected to the internet". For example, every request coming in or going out, as well as SSH access, could go through a proxy. I would still call that being "connected to the internet", but it's different from giving your server a public IP address.
Doctors and nurses have always had large reference tomes that they refered to.
List of medication side effects, dosing guidelines and so forth have been common throughout the industry almost since it's very inception. Indeed, there are books going back thousands of years across multiple cultures around the world that are just referenced guides for medical practitioners.
But then how will doctors google the patients' symptoms?
If your answer is "they should already know all that is required to do their job without looking it up online", then consider whether you hold yourself to the same standard. I don't.