| Sumario: | A growing number of people across America are using the Internet to empower themselves with medical information, and the access is altering the way patients relate with their doctors. Some patients can make or change appointments to see their doctors through the Internet, locate a specialist in their area, receive a list of side effects related to their prescription, research their own medical conditions, and even read the same material their doctors do. Medical use of the Internet is creating a new frontier, a different way of speaking to doctors. Details are provided of telemedicine, which refers to doctor-to-doctor communication through the Internet; the concerns regarding Internet consultations; and the defense of online patient-doctor consultations.
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