There are more ways than ever to communicate with people. In NPR.org’s “What We Have Here: A Failure To Communicate”, Kate Kamber, a student at the University of Virginia, says that in contemporary American culture, “the problem is not how to best contact someone for the sake of contact, but rather the problem is how to contact someone in a medium where the intended message can most accurately be conveyed.”
New communication and social channels present new challenges and questions for physicians and other medical professionals. Patients and physicians are also increasingly “super mobile” using mobile devices, smartphones and tablets, more than PCs.
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Sixty-three percent of young people use texting to chat with others every day. About 39 percent call and receive calls on their cellphones; 29 percent swap messages on social network sites — such as Facebook and Twitter — and 22 percent send instant messages. Very few report using email–only 6%.
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