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How Facebook Saved Our Day!

Ben-Yakov, Maxim, Snider, Carolyn·2011·Academic Emergency Medicine
DOI 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01199.x
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Abstract

Facebook and social media networking applications use is ubiquitous across all ages and cultures. Facebook has finally begun to appear in the medical-scientific press. Today's medical literature is focused on concerns of professionalism in young health care practitioners vis-à-vis the lay public as they continuously expose themselves through this online social medium. With over 500 million users, Facebook hosts many of our patients, who are also exposed to the Internet and social media. Nobody so far has considered the opposite issue: that of physician invasion of privacy by "looking-up" a patient on Facebook during clinical practice for purposes of history-taking or diagnostic clues in situations where patients are too ill to provide needed information. We need to consider the ethical implications of privacy invasion in the current era of information technology. We need to acquire and maintain a certain level of "social media competency" to better debate the issues around Facebook and how we integrate on-line content with our patients' histories of present illness (HPI) or past medical histories (if at all).

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  • Emergency physicians were able to contact the spouse of an amnestic patient using Facebook when traditional information sources were exhausted.

    “One report in the literature describes how emergency physicians were able to contact the spouse of an amnestic patient using the popular social networking site Facebook when other traditional sources of information were exhausted.17”

    From Social Media and Clinical Care: Ethical, Professional, and Social Implications (2013) · cites this paper as [17]

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Authors
Ben-Yakov, M., & Snider, C.
ORCID
Snider, Carolyn
Venue
Academic Emergency Medicine
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2011-11
Volume
18
Issue
11
Pages
1217-1219
ISSN
1069-6563 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01199.x
OpenAlex
W1972297023
Cited by
20
References
11
Citations by year
2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
FWCI
2.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 1400 d)
Locations
  • Academic Emergency Medicine (publishedVersion, public-domain)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
Keywords
Facebook, social media, privacy violations, medical ethics, patient history taking, online patient information, physician professionalism
MeSH terms
Adult, Amnesia, Confidentiality, Emergency Medical Services, Female, Humans, Physician-Patient Relations, Privacy, Social Media

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