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Impacts Of Social Networking Sites On Patient Care In The Emergency Department, Anne Bennett, Ali Pourmand, Robert Shesser, Jesus Sanchez, Joseph Joyce
Impacts Of Social Networking Sites On Patient Care In The Emergency Department, Anne Bennett, Ali Pourmand, Robert Shesser, Jesus Sanchez, Joseph Joyce
Emergency Medicine Faculty Publications
The use of Facebook is ubiquitous among both patients and physicians. Often Facebook intrudes into medical practice, thereby highlighting its potential to be either a positive or negative factor in a patient's medical care. Despite being a “hot topic” in the medical literature, very few real world examples exist of physicians actually using information obtained from Facebook to reach a diagnosis or otherwise affect patient care. We present a case involving a 13-year-old girl who posted photographs and captions on Facebook demonstrating suicidal ideation. The patient's parents were alerted to the girl's statements in her Facebook profile and brought her …