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Some doctors choosing to tweet and text with patients

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There's a stereotype that says doctors shun technology that might threaten patients' privacy and their own pocketbooks. But a new breed of physicians is texting health messages to patients, tracking disease trends on Twitter, identifying medical problems on Facebook pages and communicating with patients through email.

So far, those numbers are small. Many doctors still cling to pen and paper, and are most comfortable using e-technology to communicate with each other -- not with patients. But from the nation's top public health agency, to medical clinics in the heartland, some physicians realize patients want more than a

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