Stop The Madness: Four Ways To Reduce Frequent Phone Calls…
...so you can focus on the important tasks again. Mobile phones for doctors have changed the clinical routine tremendously. The pager is gone and everybody can be reached whenever he is at work. Is this a progress? I am not sure. Turns out that the threshold to contact doctors in semi-important issues is close to an all-time-low while the number of calls and hence interruptions is close to a peak. A ringing phone creates urgency. It could be an emergency. A patient in cardiac arrest, a majo
