September 14, 2001

Specialists at Medical Schools Test Online Consulting

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

If a patient in Seattle or Pittsburgh wants a second opinion from a Harvard Medical School specialist, it's now available online -- for $600.

Harvard physicians are entering the legally complicated but potentially lucrative business of dispensing advice over the Internet. The service was started this summer by Partners HealthCare System, which includes several hospitals that serve as Harvard teaching affiliates. The plan allows patients in 33 states to have their cases reviewed by some

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