Shaw had already been in the practice of ending conversations with light prods for juicy office gossip he told Forbes, but he found that employees were sometimes taken aback by his curiosity.

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Websites like these are particularly useful to physicians who practice in the community and may not have access to other providers for those casual conversations like they do in academic medicine.

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When it does, the introduction of stem cell medicines will have a profound effect on the practice of medicine, and we can expect cocktail conversations to revolve around the potential stem cells have for saving lives, rather than beginning them.

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