{"id":40773,"date":"2017-12-04T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=40773"},"modified":"2019-02-23T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T18:28:39","slug":"peter-brindley-and-matt-morgan-all-i-want-for-christmasis-to-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2017\/12\/04\/peter-brindley-and-matt-morgan-all-i-want-for-christmasis-to-slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Brindley and Matt Morgan: All I want for Christmas\u2026is to slow down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\">Digital addiction is a real barrier to patient centred care<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As another frantic holiday season approaches, we are reminded of the three stages of life: First you believe in Santa, then you don\u2019t believe in Santa, then you <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Santa. We are both willing actors in stage-three, and along with this came acceptance of an inconvenient truth: our parents were right all along. We had both spent four decades rolling our collective eyes as our mums delivered the same advice: \u201cJust slow down.\u201d Mum was right of course, mum is always right: right about parenthood, just as right about \u201cdoctorhood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of these authors (PB) recently reviewed the book \u201cDistracted Doctoring: Returning to Patient-Centered Care\u201d by Papadakos and Bertman. [1] It offers lessons for both our personal and professional lives that would receive unwavering maternal approval. If you can find time from your other distractions, then you too will be rewarded and admonished in equal order. The book opens by explaining the concept of \u201cdigital harm\u201d, and ends by imploring you\u2014and me and us\u2014to simply slow down and to be present. In the medical realm, this book warns cogently about how flesh-and-blood patients have become iPatients. The book also outlines how we are prone, perhaps even wired, to attend to the screen before the human. \u201cDigital addiction\u201d is not only real it is a real barrier to patient centred care. It is also a clear and present danger to our personal lives. Unfortunately, the problem is easier to diagnose than to cure. Moreover, without action it will only get worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is dangerous to outsource deep-thought, to dilute face-to-face contact, and to believe that we can seamlessly multi-task. However, distraction and time pressure has long bedevilled professionals and parents alike. What is novel, and perhaps paradoxical, is the idea that easy-information can promulgate lazy-thinking. In the past, as doctors, we were forced to head to the library, to radiology, and to medical records. Late at night, it was worse still, as we likely had to waylay a security guard. These were major distractions\u2014no doubt about it\u2014but these limits forced us to prioritize, to rationalize, to think, and to think again. Now we reach for the phone in our pocket and our prefrontal cortex is given a bye. Like the holiday season we receive sack loads of stuff, but not necessarily meaning. It may be easy to inhabit \u201capp-y\u201d valley, but it is not without risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the \u201cattentional economy,\u201d engineers and psychologists are actually incentivized to distract us. It is likely that companies and politicians wish to do the same. Regardless, it appears that we get a squirt of dopamine with each electronic diversion. This in turn primes our primate neural circuitry to desire more, and a vicious cycle ensues. Hyperbole aside this means that medical problem-solving and interpersonal relationships are under-siege from pocket dopamine machines. Even if it is not our fault, it is still our responsibility to control our attention. These authors believe we have reached the point where we need to redefine what it means to be a medical professional, an attentive parent, and an empathic partner. We must not use these \u201cweapons of mass distraction\u201d longer than is necessary or helpful. The computer and the phone must be our servant not our master.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We acknowledge that no physician, parent, or partner can know everything, and that we need data that is readily accessible and legible. However, we also believe it is time to see increased screen time as a relative failure, and to move past the specious idea that the computer is automatically mightier than the pen. You are not a Luddite is you forgo the latest in favour of the reliable. Moreover, our technology should pass a new digital test: does this deliver usable information quicker than erstwhile methods, does it encourage better documentation, and does it illuminate rather than obfuscate the human story? Above all, does it help me to focus on what matters most? If it fails these tests then it is not \u201cfit for task.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These two authors are issuing a Christmas challenge and a New Year\u2019s resolution. During medical rounds\u2014just as with family time\u2014we will leave our phones behind and forego the comforting pocket vibration. We will prepare beforehand and we will read after. We shall maximize time with humans and downgrade the iPatient and iFamily. We will think until it hurts, and we will communicate face-to-face. In short, we will strive to be the doctors and family members that our patients need and our mothers expect. These two Santa-wannabes also wish you the gift of a restorative holiday, a digital reset, and a less distracted 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Peter Brindley, <\/b>pr<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>ofessor of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, and Health Ethics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/docpgb?lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@docpgb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Matt Morgan<\/strong>,\u00a0Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University,\u00a0Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Head of Research and Development at University Hospital of Wales, and an editor of\u00a0BMJ OnExamination<\/em>. He is on twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dr_mattmorgan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@dr_mattmorgan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n[1] Brindley PG. A Book Review of \u201cDistracted Doctoring: Returning to Patient-Centered Care in the Digital Age\u201d. Do we have time for this? 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