Untangling the web - Patients, doctors, and the internet

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 362, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1063-1066

  Hartzband, Pamela ^a   Groopman, Jerome ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACKACHE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INCONTINENCE; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SHORT SURVEY; STETHOSCOPE; TUMOR BIOPSY; UROLOGY; X RAY PICTURE;

EID: 77950259357     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0911938     Document Type: Article

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