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Younger docs embrace technology, teamwork

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Leana Wen works in the emergency department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Wen chose emergency medicine because the hours are more flexible.

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Leana Wen, who is doing her medical residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, sits in front of her computer on the rooftop of her apartment in Boston.

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Leana Wen, left, of Boston, who is doing her medical residency in emergency medicine, speaks with Josh Kosowsky, clinical director of emergency medicine, right, at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

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Leana Wen works on a computer at Brigham and Women's in Boston. Wen chose emergency medicine because the hours are more flexible than those of primary care physicians.

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Leana Wen deposits some personal belongings in a locker in the emergency department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

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Don't call today's young doctors slackers. True, they may shun a 24/7 on-call solo practice and try to have a life outside of work. Yet they say they're just as committed to medicine as kindly Marcus Welby from 1970s TV, or even grumpy Dr. House. The practice of medicine is in the midst of an evolution, and millennial and Gen X doctors seem to be perfectly suited for it and in some ways may be driving it. The federal health care law is speeding some of these changes, too.