Internet offers risks as well as benefit to patients

The Internet has had a profound effect on clinical practice by providing both physicians and patients with a wealth of information. But with those rewards come risks of incorrect or poorly interpreted information that require that a doctor “never be optional,” warn Harvard physicians Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in the tomorrow's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.read more

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