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Social Media and Physicians’ Online Identity Crisis
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Physicians are increasingly counted among Face-book’s 1 billion users and Twitter’s 500 million members. Beyond these social media platforms, other innovative social media tools are being used in medical practice, including for online consultation,(1) in the conduct of clinical research,(2) and in medical school curricula.(3) Social media content is brief, characterized as “many-to-many” communication, and able to spread rapidly across the Internet beyond a person’s control. These and other features of social media create new dimensions to traditional ethical issues, particularly around maintaining appropriate boundaries between physicians and patients.
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“Further, multiple studies have revealed instances of vulgar or derogatory language, breaches of patient confidentiality, and sharing of inappropriate content, which can even lead to legal issues for medical students or medical doctors when using SM (19).”
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- Authors
- DeCamp, M., Koenig, T. W., & Chisolm, M. S.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2013-08-14
- Volume
- 310
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 581
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- PMC
- PMC3954788
- OpenAlex
- W2088189862
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 17.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- JAMA (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5t32hl007180-45)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T32-HL-007180, 5T32HL007180-38)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Social Sciences › Law › Medical and Health Sciences Research
- Keywords
- social media, physicians, online identity, physician-patient relationship, professional boundaries, medical ethics, teleconsultation, Facebook, Twitter
- MeSH terms
- Ethics, Professional, Humans, Physician-Patient Relations, Physicians, Professional Competence, Professional Autonomy, Personal Autonomy, Consensus, Social Media
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