October 17th, 2017
Emergency Medicine: A Life of Interruption
Alexandra Godfrey, BSc PT, MS PA-C
Emergency medicine is a life of interruption. Physicians, nurses, PAs, radiology techs, registration clerks: we are all constantly interrupted or interrupting. Unfortunately, interruptions and distractions and the consequent attention shift may lead to error. Sometimes, we fail to return to the original task, make an error in that task, or waste time on less urgent […]