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’Tweeting’ Medics Expose Patients
Medics (实习医生) posting messages on networking websites like Facebook and twitter are breaching patient confidentiality, a leading journal reveals.
Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association found examples of web gossip by trainee doctors sharing private patient stories and details.
Over half of 78 US medical schools studied had reported cases of students posting unprofessional content online.
One in 10 of these contained frank violations of patient confidentiality.
Most were blogs, including one on Facebook, containing enough clinical detail that patients could potentially be identified.
Many postings included profanity and discriminatory language. Sexually suggestive material and photos showing drunkenness or illicit drug use were also commonplace. While most incidents resulted in informal warnings, some were deemed serious enough to lead to dismissal from medical
A. Students post profanity and discriminatory language online.
B. Medics tweeting online expose patients and breach their confidentiality.
C. Medics blogs expose sexually suggestive material.
D. Most of tweeting resulted in informal warnings.