Doctors, listen to your patients

From TED TALKS TUESDAY

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Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool:
human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange
new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return
to the traditional one-on-one physical exam.

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