Distracted doctoring: Smartphones before patients?

A cure for the distracted time-out before surgery.

Patients with Dementia Are Easily Distracted

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the middle ground between normal, age-appropriate memory impairment, and dementia. Whereas patients with MCI are able to cope with the memory deficit, those with dementia are not: Their memory impairment and other cognitive deficits are of sufficient magnitude to interfere with the patients' ability to cope independently with daily activities. In both MCI and ...

Doctoring the drinkers.

I want to be a general surgeon. I love surgery. I love the theatre environment, the strong team set up, the buzz of hospital, and most of all, I love being involved in and performing surgical procedures. So what does 4 months of working in a primary care setting as a GP have to offer me? At the start of the placement I was sceptical if it would have anything to offer me at all. During those mon...

The future for personal doctoring.

A continuing patient–doctor relationship has achieved the status of a core value and feature of primary care. In this issue of the BJGP, two papers by Salisbury et al and Ridd et al add to the large body of primary care research seeking to improve the definition and measurement of the continuing patient–doctor relationship. The aim is to understand and defend it as a core feature. It has been u...

Publications on Distracted Driving

A study of fatal traffic crashes in Florida examined contributing factors among crashes in which younger (under age 25) drivers were found to be at fault. A case-based analysis was used to improve the accuracy and completeness of the data from the original crash reports. Results were presented using over-representation factors (ORB), a simplified but statistically significant approach to freque...