Director of Critical Care Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York
It has been 12 years since I published a commentary titled “Electronic Distraction an Unmeasured Variable in Modern Medicine” in Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News’ sister publication Anesthesiology News (November 2011). This piece was at the core of a front-page story that appeared in The New York Times and ignited a firestorm of media