The Internet as Collateral Informant

While writing the patient's medical history and physical examination results, the resident decided to perform an Internet "Google" search on the patient and discovered a newspaper article from 3 months earlier detailing how Mr. J was pulled by police from a nearby river and admitted t...

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Published in:The American journal of psychiatry 2006-10, Vol.163 (10), p.1842-1842
Main Authors: NEIMARK, GEOFFREY, HURFORD, MATTHEW OWEN, DiGIACOMO, JOSEPH
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Data Collection - ethics
Data Collection - methods
Humans
Internet
Internet - ethics
Internet - statistics & numerical data
Letters to the editor
Male
Medical History Taking - methods
Medical History Taking - statistics & numerical data
Medical Records Systems, Computerized - ethics
Medical Records Systems, Computerized - statistics & numerical data
Patients
Personal information
Psychiatry - ethics
Search engines
Suicide, Attempted - psychology
Suicide, Attempted - statistics & numerical data
Suicides & suicide attempts
Websites
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Summary:While writing the patient's medical history and physical examination results, the resident decided to perform an Internet "Google" search on the patient and discovered a newspaper article from 3 months earlier detailing how Mr. J was pulled by police from a nearby river and admitted to a local psychiatric hospital after he jumped off a major bridge in what was described as a suicide attempt. Thus, entering an individual's name into a search engine can reveal interesting results, ranging from newspaper articles to personal Web pages to court cases that are a matter of public record.
ISSN:0002-953X
1535-7228
DOI:10.1176/ajp.2006.163.10.1842