Do you cyber-stalk your patients?
1st April 2017
Doctors are increasingly googling their patients, according to a University of Melbourne bioethicist who says the practice raises ethical concerns.
Dr Merle Spriggs points to a recent survey that found one in six doctors had searched online for information on a patient, not seeing it as an invasion of privacy.
Studies from the US and Canada tell a similar story.
Dr Spriggs says doctors mostly believe they are doing it in the best interests of their patients, but there is also evidence that some are effectively online stalking