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If health information technology helps improve the physician-patient relationship it will accomplish wonders . Many people are concerned that managed care has undermined the physician-patient relationship too much already . Finally , placebos involve deception on the part of the physician that could deleteriously affect the physician-patient relationship . This brief article will focus on how this changing face of the physician-patient interaction in telemedicine is likely to blur and alter the traditional concept of duty and complicate analysis of this element in traditional malpractice negligence actions . A member of the faculty since 1987 , Bobinski is a co-author of a leading casebook on health law and has written on HIV-infected health care workers , conflicts of interest in the physician-patient relationship , and other issues . Conversation , Katz writes , " will protect the integrity of the physician-patient relationship only if doctors are willing to confront and change their views of themselves as sole authority and of their patients as incompetent participants in decision making .