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Volume 357:2533-2536 December 20, 2007 Number 25 Next

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By the time Galen Buckwalter's physician knocked on the exam-room door, Buckwalter's video camera had been recording for nearly 40 minutes. He had booked the appointment because his shoulders were hurting, and the camera recorded his view of the examination table, the comments he made while waiting and, eventually, a largely transactional and superficial exchange with his physician. Two weeks later, in his home, the camera would record a strikingly different take on his shoulder pain — a growing problem that, Buckwalter worried aloud, might cost him even more of his cherished independence.

As an internist, I was disturbed by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Berland is an assistant professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

A video and an interview with Drs. Berland and Buckwalter are available at www.nejm.org.

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