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American Medical Association

Never assume that what you are seeing or experiencing is everyone else’s reality.

April 15, 2013 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Light bulbs in the night sky - a photo by Ted Eytan

Atul Gawande can shine a bright spotlight, even with just a few tweets. On Saturday he linked to an article about new social media guidelines for physicians which states: Aside from not “friending” patients [on Facebook], the guidelines also recommend the following to physicians: • Don’t use text messaging for medical interactions, even with established […]

Filed Under: key people, net-friendly docs Tagged With: American Medical Association, Atul Gawande, e-patients, Rosalie Yerkes Figge, Tom Ferguson

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