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Still, anyone have non-threatening words to express to him how nervous I am that anyone, (including him, though I wouldn’t tell him that), might be “distracted” by answering a phone call or text from a someone? I’ve thought of saying something like “I’m really glad I have you for a surgeon. You strike me as the kind of person who wouldn’t be afraid to tell anyone in the room to put their phone down. Maybe you could say something before the surgery. What do you think?” But I can just hear him saying, “Oh, that’s nothing to worry about. It’s a great place and you’ll be just fine.” Actually, even if he laid down the law, how can he keep track of what everyone else is doing and focus on my surgery at the same time?

Suggestions?

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“Doctors have to manage smartphone distractions
As the use of mobile devices grows among physicians, so does concern about how to minimize interruptions that could endanger patients.”

excerpt:
“A case described in the December 2011 issue of the online patient safety journal AHRQ WebM&M highlights the concern. While rounding on a 56-year-old man hospitalized to have his percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube replaced, the attending physician at an unidentified academic medical center said the patient’s Warfarin should be stopped.

“A resident rounding with the attending physician started entering the drug stop order using her smartphone, which could access the hospital’s computerized physician order entry system. She was interrupted by an incoming text message from a friend asking about an upcoming party. The resident answered the text message — yes, she would attend the party — but forgot to complete the stop order.

“The patient continued receiving Warfarin and two days later developed shortness of breath, a rapid heart rate and low blood pressure. He ultimately required open-heart surgery to remove blood that was filling the sac around his heart. The spontaneous bleeding, the medical team believed, was due to the extra doses of Warfarin the patient got because the drug order was not stopped.”

There are many journal articles addressing this growing problem. Just one more is: “Association of Interruptions With an Increased Risk and Severity of Medication Administration Errors”

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Also, can you clarify the questions here about those public signs restricting cellphone use by patients in hospital because they might interfere with certain medical equipment?

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Also, a quick text can be less distracting to the rest of the OR team than a voice phone call that everyone probably is trying to listen to instead of focusing on their individual part of the proceedure.

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