Distracted doctoring is a growing patient safety issue that can endanger patients and increase medical liability. Everyone has heard about the problem of distracted driving and, even, districted walking. But what about distracted doctoring?It’s a problem that can endanger patients and increase medical liability, according to Shelley Rizzo, patient safety risk manager at physician-owned medical malpractice insurer The Doctors Company.RELATED: Patients prefer the doctor without the computer, MD Anderson researchers findWhen a doctor takes attention away from a patient, it increases the potential for a serious patient safety event, Rizzo said in an interview with FierceHealthcare.

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