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November 18, 2015 -- Today at the AMIA conference, Dr. Bob Wachter, faculty member of my alma mater UCSF and author of the thought-provoking The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age, gave a great talk on that theme.

As is unmistakeable in this wonderful image he showed -- "A 7-year old girl's depiction of her MD visit" -- in which the MD is completely focused on his computer not on the patient (click to see it full-size) we in medical technology have a lot of work to do.

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