[Medical liability: the risk related to the new doctor-patient relationship]

Medical liability: the risk related to the new doctor-patient relationship. The practice of medecine, just as with any other profession, is being transformed by the development of new information technologies. But medicine is a one of a kind activity. In regards to the closeness established between physician and patient, the intimacy, the secrecy even. This closeness is necessary to the establishment of a trusting relationship, without whom there could be no traditional patient-doctor bonding. Yet, telemedicine brings the exact opposite: distance and dissemination. How can we then reconcile this distance with the imperatives brought by the doctor-patient relationship? within the protecting framework of any doctor's deontological rules? between the institution of secrecy, in total opposition with the information flow? As it appears, if these modern means of communication can, without a doubt, contribute to an increase in the quality of care, they are not without risks. Neither for the patient, nor the physician.