SeaCat
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A short while ago I had to sit and watch a training film in work. The basis of the film was to show people how Multi-Tasking takes away their concentration. We were told to watch the people in the white shirts and count how many times they passed a ball back and forth.
The film ended and were were asked how many times the ball was passed back and forth. (14 times.) The instructor then asked how many people had noticed anything strange. I held up my hand.
He asked me what I hd noticed, and I started listing them. The elevator doors in the background opening and closing five seperate times with no one entering or leaving the elevator. The white team dropping the ball three times, and getting a different ball each time. The person in the Gorilla Costume walking across the scene half way through. The fact that three of the people in the black shirts changed out for different people.
He looked at me in consternation. He admitted he hadn't seen half of this, and he had been watching the film at least once a day for the past several weeks.
It was funny and it was sad. He was preaching against Multi-tasking. (Which is needed in our field.) He was preaching that we had to focus on one thng and one thing only, which is fatal in medicine. It was funny because I saw all of this and more on my first viewing, and it was sad because his teachings would be listened to by the people who make the rules. (Although they won't change our staffing levels.)
Cat
The film ended and were were asked how many times the ball was passed back and forth. (14 times.) The instructor then asked how many people had noticed anything strange. I held up my hand.
He asked me what I hd noticed, and I started listing them. The elevator doors in the background opening and closing five seperate times with no one entering or leaving the elevator. The white team dropping the ball three times, and getting a different ball each time. The person in the Gorilla Costume walking across the scene half way through. The fact that three of the people in the black shirts changed out for different people.
He looked at me in consternation. He admitted he hadn't seen half of this, and he had been watching the film at least once a day for the past several weeks.
It was funny and it was sad. He was preaching against Multi-tasking. (Which is needed in our field.) He was preaching that we had to focus on one thng and one thing only, which is fatal in medicine. It was funny because I saw all of this and more on my first viewing, and it was sad because his teachings would be listened to by the people who make the rules. (Although they won't change our staffing levels.)
Cat
