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Are Medical Advances Developing too Fast
for Doctors to Embrace?
"Medicine is still practiced like it was 90 or 100 years ago," says the author of a recent study, which found many doctors don't routinely use computers to send medical reminders — for mammograms or blood tests — nor do they take advantage of other programs that track patients between visits.
According to the author, Dr. Lawrence Casalino, assistant professor, health studies, University of Chicago. "Medical care traditionally has been what your individual doctor can do in 10 to 15 minutes when you happen to show up at his or her office. If you don't come in, nothing happens."
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