
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


As healthcare professions we are often pulled in different directions ALL AT ONCE. It happens. We "multitask" every day. Or do we? Neuroscience actually states that we don't multitask at all; rather, we "task-switch" and that may lead to increased physiologic and mental stress and patient error. Yep, there is a MYTH about multitasking. In this brief episode, we remind ourselves that its OK to put somethings off, as able, until one task is completed. As the famed stoic philosopher Publilius Syrus wrote, "To do two things at once is to do neither". Listen in for details.
By Dr. Chapa’s Clinical Pearls4.1
447447 ratings
As healthcare professions we are often pulled in different directions ALL AT ONCE. It happens. We "multitask" every day. Or do we? Neuroscience actually states that we don't multitask at all; rather, we "task-switch" and that may lead to increased physiologic and mental stress and patient error. Yep, there is a MYTH about multitasking. In this brief episode, we remind ourselves that its OK to put somethings off, as able, until one task is completed. As the famed stoic philosopher Publilius Syrus wrote, "To do two things at once is to do neither". Listen in for details.

64 Listeners

2,460 Listeners

3,387 Listeners

1,040 Listeners

235 Listeners

562 Listeners

1,108 Listeners

1,141 Listeners

285 Listeners

227 Listeners

1,622 Listeners

380 Listeners

90 Listeners

22 Listeners

1,193 Listeners