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Visibility Versus Privacy of Physicians in the Age of Social Media
As access to the internet has grown over the years, social media has become an important resource in the health care sector. Third-party physician-rating websites in particular have gained popularity. However, there are ethical implications of such websites. These websites provide a platform for pat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33683211 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/21640 |
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description | As access to the internet has grown over the years, social media has become an important resource in the health care sector. Third-party physician-rating websites in particular have gained popularity. However, there are ethical implications of such websites. These websites provide a platform for patients to evaluate and review physicians and likewise increase visibility and advertisement of physicians, but they also violate the rights to privacy that these doctors should have. This paper aims to study and assess the ethical implications of these websites on the visibility and privacy of physicians. After presenting the ethical dilemma associated with such websites, it provides guidelines that can be incorporated by both physicians and third-party sites to help maintain physician privacy while providing public service in the form of advertisement and visibility. |
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spelling | pubmed-79857982021-05-07 Visibility Versus Privacy of Physicians in the Age of Social Media Patel, Sunny J Guddati, Achuta K Interact J Med Res Viewpoint As access to the internet has grown over the years, social media has become an important resource in the health care sector. Third-party physician-rating websites in particular have gained popularity. However, there are ethical implications of such websites. These websites provide a platform for patients to evaluate and review physicians and likewise increase visibility and advertisement of physicians, but they also violate the rights to privacy that these doctors should have. This paper aims to study and assess the ethical implications of these websites on the visibility and privacy of physicians. After presenting the ethical dilemma associated with such websites, it provides guidelines that can be incorporated by both physicians and third-party sites to help maintain physician privacy while providing public service in the form of advertisement and visibility. JMIR Publications 2021-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7985798/ /pubmed/33683211 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/21640 Text en ©Sunny J Patel, Achuta K Guddati. Originally published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research (http://www.i-jmr.org/), 08.03.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.i-jmr.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Viewpoint Patel, Sunny J Guddati, Achuta K Visibility Versus Privacy of Physicians in the Age of Social Media |
title | Visibility Versus Privacy of Physicians in the Age of Social Media |
title_full | Visibility Versus Privacy of Physicians in the Age of Social Media |
title_fullStr | Visibility Versus Privacy of Physicians in the Age of Social Media |
title_full_unstemmed | Visibility Versus Privacy of Physicians in the Age of Social Media |
title_short | Visibility Versus Privacy of Physicians in the Age of Social Media |
title_sort | visibility versus privacy of physicians in the age of social media |
topic | Viewpoint |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33683211 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/21640 |
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