The Annoying Thing Nearly Half of Doctors Are Doing During Office Hours

So that explains the long wait time...

When you visit the doctor, you expect her to be laser-focused on the task at hand: diagnosing your issue and prescribing a treatment to make you better ASAP.

But it turns out your doc may have something else on the brain...something like Candy Crush.

According to a new survey about phone usage at work by the market research firm YouGov, 43 percent of doctors say they play games on their phone while they’re on the job (more than 1,200 adults responded to the survey).

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Of course, it’s unlikely that they’re on the phone while performing heart surgery, but before and after? There’s a solid chance it’s going down.

Granted, doctors are just acting the same as the rest of us. Per the Observer, the survey discovered that nearly 70 percent of us are distracted from work by social media and texting a few times a day. Consultants did it the most (76 percent used their phones for social media and texting at least five times a day), followed by IT workers (59 percent), finance professionals (27 percent), and teachers (23 percent).

While you can probably get away with texting a few times during work with no repercussions, it can be potentially dangerous for doctors because gaming is distracting.

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Why are we all so hooked? Chemicals in our brains make it hard to quit. “The power of the Internet supersedes any frontal lobe judgment,” said David Greenfield, founder of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, in the Observer. “When dopamine is activated in the brain, which is what happens with gaming, it overrides your judgment.”

Yup, even with doctors.

The results really aren’t shocking since doctors are people, too, but they do shed light on a problem.

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The next time you’re stuck logging quality time in the waiting room at your doctor’s office, just keep this on the backburner: Candy Crush could be the culprit.

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