Facebook: A last resort for patient contact

[...]medical professionals have a stigma against the use of social media for medical purposes: in a survey by Bosslet et al., 68% of medical students, residents, and practicing physicians viewed interacting with patients on social media as “ethically unacceptable” for personal or patient-care relate...

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Published in:The American journal of emergency medicine 2017-09, Vol.35 (9), p.1375-1376
Main Authors: Yu, Stephen, Wilkerson, R. Gentry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Confidentiality
Education
Electrocardiography
Emergency
Emergency medical care
Emergency medical services
Facebook
Flavivirus
Gastroenterology
Health Communication - methods
Humans
Medical personnel
Medical students
Pandemics
Patients
Physicians
Public health
Rescue operations
Short PR-interval
Social media
Social Media - utilization
Social networks
Syncope
Vector-borne diseases
Web 2.0
Zika virus
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Summary:[...]medical professionals have a stigma against the use of social media for medical purposes: in a survey by Bosslet et al., 68% of medical students, residents, and practicing physicians viewed interacting with patients on social media as “ethically unacceptable” for personal or patient-care related reasons [5]. Unfortunately, the patient had eloped. Because we knew her name and a few other personal identifiers gathered during triage, we were able to find the patient on Facebook with reasonable certainty. Acknowledgment The manuscript was copyedited by Linda J. Kesselring, MS, ELS, the technical editor/writer in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. 1 R.D. Madanick, Education becomes social: the intersection of social media and medical education, Gastroenterology, Vol. 149, Iss. 4, 2015, 844-847 2 K. Vance, W. Howe, R.P. Dellavalle, Social internet sites as a source of public health information, Dermatol Clin, Vol. 27, Iss. 2, 2009, 133-136 3 T. Simon, B. Adini, M. El-Hadid, L. Aharonson-Daniel, Competing to the rescue-leveraging social media for cross border collaboration in life-saving rescue operations, Am J Emerg Med, Vol. 31, Iss. 11, 2013, 1618-1619 4 M. Sharma, K. Yadav, N. Yadav, K.C. Ferdinand, Zika virus pandemic: analysis of Facebook as a social media health information platform, Am J Infect Control, Vol. 45, Iss. 3, 2017, 301-302 5 G.T. Bosslet, A.M. Torke, S.E. Hickman, C.L. Terry, P.R. Helft, The patient-doctor relationship and online social networks: results of a national survey, J Gen Intern Med, Vol. 26, Iss. 10, 2011, 1168-1174
ISSN:0735-6757
1532-8171
DOI:10.1016/j.ajem.2017.03.045