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Doctors searching their patients’ names online is more common than either they or authorities like to admit. This could have consequences for both trust and health, writes Pavan Amara Priya* is a foundation doctor working for a London NHS trust. Last year she worked in the emergency department and took an HIV positive patient’s history. “The patient said she was an office administrator,” she says. “My instinct told me there was more.” At home, Priya googled the patient’s name and ...

Many physicians are Googling patients, which raises ethical issues.

Four decades on, some passages in David Thomson’s eccentric In Camden Town make uncomfortable reading, writes Pavan Amara

Four decades on, some passages in David Thomson’s eccentric In Camden Town make uncomfortable reading, writes Pavan Amara