The MYTH of Multitasking

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.

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