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A first of its kind study shows typical interruptions experienced by on-call radiologists do not reduce diagnostic accuracy but do change what they look at and increase the amount of time spent on a case.
The implication of the finding is that as radiologists contend with an increasing number of workplace interruptions, they must either process fewer cases or work longer hours -- both of which have adverse effects in terms of patient outcomes, said Trafton Drew, the study's lead author. They also may spend more time looking at dictation screens than reviewing medical images.
"In radiology, there is a growing recognition that interruptions are bad and the number of interruptions faced by radiologists is increasing," said Drew, an assistant professor of cognitive and neural science in the University of Utah's Department of Psychology. "But there isn't much research at all on the consequences of this situation."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 23 2018, @12:05AM
Why would that happen? We already have multi-tiered economic systems. You're not out of a job just because someone has figured out how to thrash derivatives for a living nor are you paid in the same sort of funny money wealth that they play in.
I don't buy that we'll somehow have a world where humans can't be employed at any price - unless, of course, human labor is made illegal.