Journal of dental education
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New information tools enable us to leave behind a world of medical practice in which providers of all sorts have been allowed to operate in the face of avoidable ignorance-ignorance of many relevant details from the medical literature as well as ignorance of details about a given patient. Furthermore, the new tools release providers and patients alike from the "predictable and undesirable internal constraints" of the unaided human mind as it tries to process vast amounts of information in the course of everyday medical care.