Comments on: Doctor-Patient Dialog on Social Media: A Bad Idea?

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By: Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan

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By: wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com

wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:48:41 +0000

Ok, Ted. I think I need you to start the ball rolling and give me some ideas about how Twitter might work for communicating with patients? Do you mean through private messages? Or do you think that if a patient asks you want their latest cholesterol is on twitter publicly, then it is OK to reply publicly because they have set the boundaries of the conversation? Before replying should we check "are you aware this is public?", or should we just reply anyway presuming that they know?

By: Ted Eytan

Ted Eytan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:40:47 +0000

Yes, thanks for this!

I think if we're asking the question in the first place (am I being too paternalistic?), that it's worth discovering if we are.

Before, we used to say, "e-mail is not a way to communicate with patients," today we say, "Twitter is not a way to communicate with patients." Is there a therapeuticly advantageous way that we might partner with a patient using these media?

By: Anne Marie Cunningham

Anne Marie Cunningham — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:02:04 +0000

Thanks for this. To me there just seems something inherently not right about discussing something so private in public. Even if the records could be tracked and audited and all the other issues you raise addressed, I would still not feel comfortable. If I was in a supermarket and a patient approached me about their medical condition I would not feel happy discussing their problems there either.

Am I being too paternalistic?