Tweeted by @edyong209
"Here’s What It’s Like For A Woman To Send a Job Rejection To A Man"
https://medium.com/@jolenecreighton/heres-what-its-like-for-a-woman-to-send-a-job-rejection-to-a-man-17af3090c501If the person chooses to share your words, you are (for all intents and purposes) writing to whoever they show your words to. Thus, you are (potentially) writing to the whole world. Consequently, you have to carefully think about what you say when you post something online.
I am posting this because I want people to know that there is a real person sitting on the other side of the screen.
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Tweeted by @amcunningham
"Sounding Off on Social Media: The Ethics of Patient Storytelling in the Modern Era."
http://tinyurl.com/ogw4t94revealing information related to patient care on social media in a manner that is technically HIPAA compliant, yet is ethically questionable
Although the student’s description of events preserves the patient’s anonymity, there is a conspicuously judgmental and disdainful tone to the posting that could influence public perception of the medical profession and medical education.
Even without the threat of identifying the patient, the reproduction of intimate aspects of a patient’s life—shared in confidence—on a student’s personal Facebook account is a practice that can undermine patients’ and family members’ expectations of privacy.
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Tweeted by @Joyclee
"When Doctors Write About Patients"
http://33charts.com/2015/02/doctors-write-about-patients.htmlpotential issues as doctors learn to manage the boundaries of public dialog
Unless it’s a patient’s wish to have his story disclosed, the reality is that many of our most powerful experiences will remain nothing more than our own.
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"Should Doctors Write About Patients?"
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/should-doctors-write-about-their-patients/385296/Patients rightly assume that their conversations with healthcare providers are confidential, and while there’s an implied consent that relevant information may be noted in the medical record, no one expects a rendition of a seemingly privileged conversation to appear in a magazine or newspaper article.
there remains a niggling sense that maybe I shouldn’t be exposing the inner lives of my patients, that even with a patient’s okay, even after a careful resection of sensitive elements, I may have taken advantage of a confidence
There’s value in real stories, and if doctors are careful and respectful, there are ways to write essays about patients. But sometimes, the truth can emerge more clearly—and more kindly—through the prism of fiction.
