The 2008 Institute of Medicine report: "Knowing what Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation" expediently starts the introduction with a quote by T.S. Eliot, (1934): "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" Today, nearly three-quarters of a century later, we are in dire times as the consequences for us drowning in information have never been greater. We are in an information rich world, with a cacophony of data and information, leading to a new frontier. We have advanced from an industrial age to a communication age, and along the way lost much of the value and values from personal, ethically based communication.
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