Are docs slaves to their mobile devices?: Digital tools are commandeering doctors’ personal lives, writes Chicago cardiac electro-physiologist Dr. Westby Fisher, who blogs at Dr. Wes, and docs are partly to blame.
Fisher writes that as society moves into an era of healthcare delivery in which millions more need physicians’ and other healthcare providers’ time, we’re seeing “a powerful force emerge — a subtle marketing of limitless physician availability facilitated by the advance of the electronic medical record, social media and smart phones.”
