Summary:

«In a growing social media world population, one cannot ignore the technological invasion of the medical world. From the discovery of penicillin to electronic medical records and the digital health revolution, real medical revolutions are not too many.»

«However, social media is disrupting the medical ecosystem and how we practice medicine. Information to the public is moving from a “push system,” where the teacher or the publisher decides what information to diffuse, into a “pull system,” where all the information is publicly available, and people are free to extract whatever catches their curiosity.»

Article written by HOMER MOUTRAN, MD, MBA, CALINE EL-KHOURY, PHD, AND DANIELLE WILSON

20|03|2023

Source:

Kevin MD

https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/03/from-penicillin-to-digital-health-the-impact-of-social-media-on-medicine.html