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Haslam D. Technology can improve the doctor-patient relationship. Practitioner 2014; 258 (1773): 39
Technology can improve the doctor-patient relationship
25 Jul 2014
The potential for apps and add-ons to smart phones is almost beyond imagination. Patients will be able to download user-friendly health information that will radically change the relationship between doctor and patient to a much healthier partnership model, rather than the teacher/student, priest/supplicant hierarchical model that is still all too typical. However complex and digital and networked the world becomes, human beings will still need to feel safe and cared for. People who are ill will still be frightened, need someone to trust, and need a system that cares. We must never forget that.
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