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|Articles|May 22, 2012
Poll of the Week – Do You Text Message With Patients?
Text messaging can be a great tool to improve communication with patients - if you use it correctly.
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Attorney and Practice Notes blogger Ericka Adler recently wrote about whether physicians and/or physician practices should text with patients.
As convenient as texting is, she wrote, there are
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