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The Web is profoundly changing communication between doctor and patient. Drs. Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman write that, nonetheless, the core relationship should not change.

Drs. Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman write that two major movements, the medical humanism movement and evidence-based practice, will now play out in the context of national health care reform. Today, when it is most important for these two movements to coalesce, they are poised to collide.

The ultimate goal of the electronic medical record is to make all patient information immediately accessible and easily transferable and to allow its essential elements to be held by both physician and patient. Drs. Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman write that before blindly embracing electronic records, we should consider their current limitations and potential downsides.