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I found this interesting article (http://www.nbcnews.com/health/your-doctor-spying-your-tweets-social-media-raises-medical-privacy-8C11427782) about a psychiatrist questioning whether she should be checking the sobriety claims of liver transplant candidates by looking on their Twitter and other social media sites. This article talks about how they turned down a young man for the liver transplant program because they found photographs of him on twitter bragging about drinking alcohol.
The article states that "you have to remember now that anyone in the doctor’s office or out in the community can look at your social media profile and rat you out." Anybody can access the information you publically post on social networking sites and as this article proves if you're not careful the information you post can have serious consequences.
However it is important to think about whether doctors should be going through their patients personal social networking profiles in the first place? what if another patient was just as bad but their profile was private instead?
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