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Image via Wikipedia Concerned that doctors’ “clinical skills will be lost among the ‘downloads’ and ‘uploads’,” a British physician practicing in the U.S. asks, “Has the iPad replaced the stethoscope?” A medical-school chancellor who’s bullish on the huge benefits technology brings to medical education and patient care also warns that “technology can put distance between us, by reducing face-to-face contact.” Tech-powered transformations can be about as subtle as atomic-heat chicken wings....