Doctors googling patients is a commonly broken taboo
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 found she was an adult film performer. “It raised questions: was she still working in that industr...
Source: bmj.com
