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Doctors’ Personal Revelations Don’t Help Patients

Howard Beckman always thought his patients benefited when he chimed in with relevant information about himself. “I was confident that it deepened the relationship between doctor and patient so that patients would tell more about their condition,” Beckman, an internist and professor at the University of Rochester, told the Health Blog in an interview today.

But a study Beckman and his colleagues are publishing this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests he was… read more at WSJ Health Blog.