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Ed Markey: “So we're moving from the old era where you went into the doctor's office and the nurse would open up her cabinet and…”

On the recordApril 20, 2015
So we're moving from the old era where you went into the doctor's office and the nurse would open up her cabinet and pull out your file and hand it to the doctor...
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the shift in medical privacy due to new technologies.

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