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 on Communication within the Doctor-Patient Relationship" -- Chapter 10: "Physician Dissatisfaction, Stress, and their Impact on Patient Safety" -- Chapter 11: "Distractions in the Operating Room" -- Chapter 12: "Risk Reduction and Vigilance in Anesthesia" -- Chapter 13: "Managing Distractions through Advocacy, Education, and Change" -- Chapter 14: "Electronic Devices as Potential Sources of Biological Contamination" -- Chapter 15: "Digital Distraction and Legal Risk" -- Chapter 16: "Electronic Etiquette: A Curriculum for Health Professionals" -- Chapter 17: "Mindful Practitioners, Mindful Teams, and Mindful Organizations: Attending to the Core Tasks of Medicine" -- Afterword: "Physician, Heal Thyself".

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.