is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
i'd say whatever the younguns are doin - you know, readin comics, watchin tv, playin video games, listenin to...rock 'n roll, hip hop, death metal - becomes a fad as well among healthcare professionals, who are no less flighty and crisis-oriented, no more circumspect or systematic, than the average thirteen-year-old.