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Physicians must use the same caution for patient confidentiality when communicating via e-mail as they do when using other forms of communication, the delegates agreed. They adopted recommendations from a Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs report stating that e-mail should be used only as a supplement to personal encounters, and ...

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