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Cybermedicine: Web-based Health Care and the Changing Physician-patient Relationship

Thesis advisor: John J. Michalczyk / The internet is changing health care right under out very noses. In doing so, it may have great impact on the physician-patient relationship. This relationship exists along a continuum, with paternalism at one end and total patient autonomy at the other. Various aspects of web-based health care (eHealth) are pushing the equilibrium one way or the other. Aspects of eHealth considered include: general health information websites, internet pharmacies, health communication infrastructures (as in physician-patient email and electronic medical records), and finally web-brokered organ transplantation. While there is obviously much to be aware of in terms of quality on the internet, it is concluded that an integration of eHealth into traditional medicine (thus creating cybermedicine) may not only help to mitigate the managed care crisis, but may also change the physician-patient relationship—hopefully for the better. / Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2005. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BOSTON/oai:dlib.bc.edu:bc-ir_102451
Date January 2005
CreatorsComer, Erin Elizabeth
PublisherBoston College
Source SetsBoston College
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, thesis
Formatelectronic, application/pdf
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