Main description:

Examining-room computers require doctors to record detailed data about their patients, yet reduce the time clinicians can spend listening attentively to the very people they are trying to help. This book presents original essays by distinguished experts in their fields, addressing this critical problem and making an urgent case for reform, because while electronic technology has revolutionized the practice of medicine, it also poses a unique challenge to health care. Smartphones in the hands of doctors and nurses have become dangerously seductive devices that can endanger their patients.

Distracted Doctoring is written for anesthesiologists and surgeons, as well as general practitioners, nurses, and health care administrators and students. Chapters include Electronic Challenges to Patient Safety and Care; Distraction, Disengagement, and the Purpose of Medicine; and Managing Distractions through Advocacy, Education, and Change.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword: "First, Do No Harm"

Matt Richtel, The New York Times

Chapter 1: Introduction: "The Problem of Distracted Doctoring"

Peter Papadakos, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center

Stephen Bertman, PhD, University of Windsor

Chapter 2: "Medicine Enters the Computer Age"

Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

Raman Khanna, MD, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

Chapter 3: "Electronic Challenges to Patient Safety and Care"

Stephen Bertman, PhD, University of W

indsor

Chapter 4: "The Problem of Electronic Addiction"

Stephanie Brown, PhD, Addictions Institute

Chapter 5: "A Note to My Doctor: Lessons from Fifty Years of Distracted Driving Research"

Paul Atchley, PhD, University of Kansas

Chapter 6: "Distraction, Disengagement, and the Purpose of Medicine"

David Loxterkamp, MD, Seaport Community Health Center

Chapter 7: "Taking Time to Truly Listen to Our Patients"

Deepthiman Gowda, MD, MPH, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Chapter 8: "When It Comes to the Physician-Patient-Computer Relationship, the 'Eyes' Have It"

Richard M. Frankel, PhD, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center

Chapter 9: "The

Impact of EMRs on Communication within the Doctor-Patient Relationship"

Wei Wei Lee, MD, MPH, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Maria Lolita Alkureishi, MD, University of Chicago Department of Pediatrics

Chapter 10: "Physician Dissatisfaction, Stress, and their Impact on Patient Safety"

Alan H. Rosenstein, MD, MBA

Chapter 11: "Distractions in the Operating Room"

Michelle Feil, MSN, RN, ECRI Institute

Chapter 12: "Risk Reduction and Vigilance in Anesthesia"

Roy Soto, MD, Beaumont Health

Mallika Thampy, MD, Beaumont Health

Sara Neves, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital

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hapter 13: "Managing Distractions through Advocacy, Education, and Change"

Donna Ford, MSN, RN-BC, CNOR, CRCST

Chapter 14: "Electronic Devices as Potential Sources of Biological Contamination"

Roy Constantine, PHD, MPH, St. Francis Hospital

Chapter 15: "Digital Distraction and Legal Risk"

James Szalados, MD, JD, MBA, MHA, FCCP, FCCM, FCLM, Rochester General Hospital

Chapter 16: "Electronic Etiquette: A Curriculum for Health Professionals"

Peter J. Papadakos, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center

Chapter 17: "Mindful Practitioners, Mindful Teams, and Mindful Organizations: Attending to the Core Tasks of Medicine"

Ronald M. Epstein, MD, University of Rochester M

edical Center

Afterword: "Physician, Heal Thyself"

Burke Cunha, MD, Winthrop University Hospital