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Phone Hygiene – Technology as a Reflection of Ourselves

July 8, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

During a recent solo dinner at a local restaurant a gentleman sat down next to me at the bar and put his phone between us. To my disgust, he had miserable phone hygiene. His screen was caked with a think layer of biomatter. I could only imagine - which was the problem. Knowing that a phone is ten times dirtier than a toilet seat, I moved. Sounds extreme, ... Continue Reading about Phone Hygiene – Technology as a Reflection of Ourselves

Tagged With: Smartphones

EHR/Health IT, Hospitals

Who Owns a Physician’s Smartphone?

July 27, 2017 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

In 1994 when I was a first year gastroenterology fellow cell phones were expensive and scarce. When I was on call I stayed close to the house and my personal land line phone. If I was paged out at dinner I used a pay phone or begged the hostess to borrow the house phone. So we petitioned our division chief to buy a cell phone for fellow use during weekend call. It ... Continue Reading about Who Owns a Physician’s Smartphone?

Tagged With: Physicians, Retro technology, Smartphones

Technology, Uncategorized

Analog Discipline

February 1, 2013 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This story by Iltifat Hussain over at iMedicalApps is worth a peek.  Apparently he had given his medical student brother an iPad for his clinical clerkships.  He went on to receive an unfavorable evaluation by an attending for being 'too dependent on his iPad during rounds.' I wonder what this attending was trying to teach him. I suspect he comes from a ... Continue Reading about Analog Discipline

Tagged With: Smartphones, Technology

Digital culture, Technology

Leaders and Their Smartphones

February 23, 2012 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

Recently I realized that really important people aren't fixated on their smartphones. I spent time recently with some very influential people.  Higher ups, leaders, mucky mucks.  I never saw them look at their smartphones.  Next time you're around a real leader, take note.  You would never know that they even own a phone.  I suspect they have better things to ... Continue Reading about Leaders and Their Smartphones

Tagged With: Leadership, Smartphones

Future Medicine, Physicians

iPhone Attribution Error – When Patients Think the Doctor is Texting

December 23, 2010 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This post from nurse blogger SaraBethRN is important.  She recounts an experience where she referenced her iPhone for a lab value and was accused of texting on the job.  This has happened to me on a couple of occasions. It’s the iPhone attribution error: If you’re looking at your iPhone, you must be goofing off. We sometimes associate phone use with those who are ... Continue Reading about iPhone Attribution Error – When Patients Think the Doctor is Texting

Tagged With: Attention, Doctoring 101, Physicians, Smartphones

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