Screen LibraryDistracted Doctoring : Returning to Patient-Centered Care in the Digital Age /
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 prob...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48707-6 |
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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. Dis |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XIV, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319487076 |
| Index Number: | R1 |
| CLC: | R-09 |
| Contents: | Foreword: First, Do No Harm -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Problem of Distracted Doctoring -- Chapter 2: Medicine Enters the Computer Age -- Chapter 3: Electronic Challenges to Patient Safety and Care -- Chapter 4: The Problem of Electronic Addiction -- Chapter 5: A Note to My Doctor: Lessons from Fifty Years of Distracted Driving Research -- Chapter 6: Distraction, Disengagement, and the Purpose of Medicine -- Chapter 7: Taking Time to Truly Listen to Our Patients -- Chapter 8: When It Comes to the Physician-Patient-Computer Relationship, the Eyes Have It -- Chapter 9: The Impact of EMRs o |