I’m a doctor. I never in a million years thought I’d do what I’m doing now to connect with patients.

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I am a proud late adopter of new technology. I had a StarTAC well into the 21 st century, fearing the limitless access to digital information and services that smartphones would bring and the way they would rob us of our time and attention and humanity. (I was right! Though this realization offers little solace as I stare into my phone hundreds of hours a day.) I traveled with my books of CDs and my Discman well into the era when Transportation Security Administration agents would look at them with curiosity and suspicion. I tried a Kindle for a while during late-night nursing sessions but found it sapped the joy of reading. I like things that are analog, tangibl