title: [A clinician in the 21st century].
abstract: At the beginning of the 21st century, clinical practice faces new challenges associated with very fast scientific and technological advances. Societies have also changed and current conditions demand modernization of clinical practice. Now we acknowledge the need for a patient-centered medical practice. Novel technologies will also participate in this new social fabric. This is the new clinical practice of the 21st century.
authors.affiliation: Dirección General de Coordinación de los Institutos Nacionales de Salud, SSA, México DF, México. alifshitz@salud.gob.mx
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lifshitz
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting