Primary Care Health Literacy & Patient Education Materials

Papers in this group tagged with "patient-physician communication"

1. Social media: why are doctors missing the revolution?

   Julia Belluz in The Medical Post (2011)

   Some physicians embrace tools such as Twitter, Facebook and Skype to interact with patients, but many are wary because of medico-legal issues and other uncertainties. Still, other early adopters say it's time to take a leap and embrace technology…

   Added 2012-01-06 1 reader
2. Google: Friend or enemy?

   Jonathan Marcus in The Medical Post (2011)

   Do patients and yourself a favour by helping them find good online sources of health info

   Added 2012-01-06 2 readers
3. The doctor as the second opinion and the internet as the first

   L N Gualtieri in 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009 (2009)

   People who use the Internet for health information often obtain their first opinion that way, and then, if they go to a doctor, the doctor's advice is relegated to the second opinion. Using the Internet, or Dr. Google, as a first opinion can be…

   Added 2011-09-14 18 readers