The data deluge can distract physicians from focusing on their own healing power. This includes not only their overall objectivity and diagnostic astuteness but also their capacity to regulate their own anxiety with regard to both their patients’ and their attorney’s anxieties. How physicians manage their own anxiety can be a vital component in a patient’s recovery, and it often influences, and is influenced by, how much they rely on or pursue the unending amount of data that modern medical technology is prepared to offer.
