TY  - JOUR
T1  - Social media and medical professionalism: Toward an expanded program
AU  - DeCamp M
Y1  - 2012/10/08
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3220
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1418
EP  - 1419
VL  - 172
IS  - 18
N2  - 
Social media use—via Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other social networking technologies—is widespread in medicine. Surveys consistently demonstrate that physicians (particularly younger ones) and patients frequently use social media personally and professionally.1 Social media's benefits include disaster response efforts,2 public health tool kits (eg, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and sites where physicians consult each other about patient care. Anecdotal reports of diagnoses aided by social media highlight the potential benefits for geographically remote physicians or obscure diagnoses. Some physicians extol social media's utility in marketing their practices and extending care in an era of time-pressed office visits.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3220
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3220
ER  -