Very interesting article here on practicing mindfulness in medicine.    The concept of being mindful – being present in the moment purposefully and without judgment – has obvious implications for all of us who are bombarded by voicemails, emails, etc., etc.

As one of the surgeons quoted in the article put it, “Time in the operating room is not work; it’s play.”  Or “Flow”, as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has put it so brilliantly in his books.

The last quote in the NYT article sums it up perfectly:   “If we can be mindful in the midst of challenging circumstances, we can derive a greater sense of meaning from even the most demanding situations.”

flow, multi-tasking