Questão 21

I use the term digital physician to describe doctors in the context of changing patterns of work and
thought. We’re doing more with digital tools. The tools are redefining us. Right now we worry about all
the bad things that come from our digital transition. Careers will be built confirming the tired bias that
the internet is a place where good doctors go to ruin and patients are corrupted. Clinical workflows are
[5] viewed through a dusty 20th century lens.
Once over this we’ll be able to move on with our business.
Just as motorcars became cars, digital professionalism will be professionalism. Electronic health records
will become health records again. As virtual engagement becomes the norm rather than an option,
we’ll stop worrying about what doctors do online. We’ll worry less whether a diagnosis was made by
[10] stethoscope or pocket sized ultrasound. We’ll go back to just worrying about what doctors do.
We’ll just be doctors again.

(VARTABEDIAN, B. Death of the Digital Physician. Disponível em: http://33charts.com/2012/05/death-digital-physician.html. Acesso em: 26 jun. 2012.)

De acordo com o texto, os médicos digitais estão