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PITFALLS WITH SMARTPHONES
IN MEDICINE
Hoàng Thị Hằng



WARM UP
1.
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3.

How much time do you use smart phones a day?
Are you distracted from your work when you
have a smart phone beside you?
How does a smart phone affect work as a
doctor?


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1. Disrupted clinical communication
1. Audio Distortion
2. Faulty Monologues
3. Fumbled Messages

2. Social disengagement
1. Mindless checking
2. Surrounding Neglect



1.

Failures of technology
1.
2.

2.

Unanticipated Loss
Myth of Dependability

Direct patient harm
1.
2.

Nosocomial Infections
Breached Confidentiality


 Pitfall

(n): a danger
 Disrupt sth: làm gián đoạn
 Ex: Bus services will be disrupted
tomorrow because of the bridge closure.
 Distort (v) to change (sound)
 Ex: The loudspeaker seemed to distort his
voice.
 Monologue (n) độc thoại
 Ex: He went into a long monologue about

life in America.
 Fumble (v) have difficulty finding words
to say
  fumbled messages


 Missive

(n): a long letter
 Avalanche (n)
 Engagement with sth: the fact of being
involved with sth.
  disengagement (n)
  social disengagement
 Neglect (v): to fail to pay attention to sth
  (n)
  social neglect


 Anticipate
 Myth

(v): wait for sth

(n)
 "nosus“: "disease" +
 "komeion“: "to take care of.“
 nosocomial: taking place in the hospital
 Break (v): break
 Confident (a): secret

  confidentiality
 A doctor was sacked for allegedly
breaching patient confidentiality.


Proliferation (n) the sudden increase in sth
Exacerbate (v) to make sth worse (The symptoms may be
exacerbated by certain drugs.)
Disrupt (v) to make sth difficult to continue
(Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting)


Distortion (n) a change in sth, in negative way
Fidelity (n) quality of being accurate (the fidelity of
the translation to the original text)
Miniaturization (n) act of making much smaller
version of sth


Accentuate (v) to emphasize (Her short hair
accentuated her huge eyes.)
Impulsive (a) acting suddenly
Cascade /kæˈskeɪd/ a large number of
Fumble (v) to have difficulties expressing things
(During the interview, she fumbled helplessly for
words.)
Retrieval (n) process of getting things back


Exasperation (n) the feeling of being annoyed (He

became entangled in a series of conflicts with
the management.)
Extraneous /ɪkˈstreɪniəs/ (a) irrelevant
span (n) length of time ( a span of 6 years)
prevail (v) to exist (We were horrified at the
conditions prevailing in local prisons.)
glamorous (unglamorous) attractive


Breach (v) to break (a promise) (A doctor was
sacked for allegedly breaching patient
confidentiality.)
Pitfall (n) danger or difficulty ( potential ~ of
buying a house)
Harness (v) to control and use the strength of sth
(They are attempting to harness the power of the
sun.)


READING- DO THE READING AND FIND
EXAMPLES/EXPLANATIONS FOR EACH IDEA
1.

Disrupted clinical
communication
1.
2.
3.

2.


Social disengagement
1.
2.

3.

Audio Distortion
Faulty Monologues
Fumbled Messages
Mindless checking
Surrounding Neglect

Failures of technology
1.
2.

Unanticipated Loss
Myth of Dependability

4.

Direct patient harm
1.

2.

Nosocomial Infections
Breached Confidentiality



1. A smartphone full of clinical data without
password protection.
2. The smart phone is malfunctioned temporarily
 being unable to use inside data.
3.Use smartphone and examine patients at the
same time
4. Loss of smartphone
5. Unclear voice message through the phone
6. Mistakenly delete an important messages
7. Receive so many unnecessary messages
8. Use smartphone during rounds
9. Send a message with some mistaken content
10. Transmit a message to the wrong destination



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