Dr. Mark D'Esposito

Someone's having gun control seizures or they're having a stroke.

And, you know, doing this back in the 80s or 90s and early 2000s when you went down there and you didn't have any smartphone, you could only rely on what's in your head.

And I could say now having the smartphone, it hasn't...

It doesn't help me at all.

It does not help me at all in making the kind of decisions that I have to make in the emergency room.

I'm trying to decide, you know, what's the problem here?

What's the differential diagnosis?

How should I treat it?

I'm just trying to make very... Going through an algorithm, like you said, in a...

common sense way.

And there's nothing on my phone that I can turn to to help me do that.

It has helped with giving me knowledge.

Like back in the day, I had to remember what the Dilantin dose was and have that in my head or go look for the piece of paper in my pocket.

And so I can quickly pull up, you know, I guess I'm a little bit, you know, there's information that I can access that I don't have to worry about keeping every single dose in my head or keeping everything in my head, just facts in my head.

But outside of that, there's nothing I can turn to that it's making me

you know better making me make better decisions so i i don't even need my cell phone i don't go searching for my cell phone if i'm going to go to murray's room we're going to take a take a phone call so i don't see how it's helping sort of make your frontal lobe it can't be your frontal lobes i mean it's another way of saying it but but on the flip side can it help you optimize frontal lobe function technology certainly it can we can maybe talk about later there are certainly

That's one way to get learned strategies is through a device that's easily accessible to you as opposed to a book or having a therapist in your house.

Yeah, I mean, I think there is a risk.

But what pops to mind, you know, having kids is watching them navigate in their cars to places totally dependent on Google Maps.

I think you're probably old enough to remember real maps where you didn't have one.