Old Friends: Maintaining the Physician-Patient Connection in the 21st Century

I've had multiple roles in my medical career, including traditional bench academic, clinical academic, private practitioner, and administrator. But I've always worked in teaching hospitals, instructing students, residents, and for a good amount of time, fellows. Interaction with patients has changed, particularly with the presence of the electronic medical record (EMR), where the computer is now the third person in the room, often sitting between the doctor and patient. But these are not musings of an old man wistfully remembering the days before computers.

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