Privacy, professionalism and Facebook: a dilemma for young doctors

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Website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03720.x/abstract

Date posted: 15.07.10

Article from Medical Education on the popularity of Facebook for junior doctors and the implication to privacy from patients and professional boundaries.

As quoted:

Young doctors are active members of Facebook. A quarter of the doctors in our survey sample did not use the privacy options, rendering the information they revealed readily available to a wider public.

This information, although it included some healthy behaviours, also revealed personal information that might cause distress to patients or alter the professional boundary between patient and practitioner, as well as information that could bring the profession into disrepute (e.g. belonging to groups like ‘Perverts united’).

Educators and regulators need to consider how best to advise students and doctors on societal changes in the concepts of what is public and what is private.

 


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