The Massachusetts Medical Law Report recently ran an article discussing the legal issues surrounding doctors’ use of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. The consensus seems to steer towards paranoia and to thinking twice before discussing actual patient cases.
A snippet:
“If you can’t do something at a cocktail party without people staring and looking at you strangely, you shouldn’t be able to do the same thing online,” says Jim Tobin, president of Ignite Social Media, a Cary, N.C., social-media agency that is developing a social-networking program for the Massachusetts Medical Society and its members.
Article in Massachusetts Medical Law Report: Social networking 101 for physicians…
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