Is Googling information about your patients ethical?
Privacy campaigners, lawyers and ethics professors are seeking guidelines for doctors.
Should doctors be banned from looking up a patient’s Facebook page or Instagram account or watching their TikToks?
Is this an unethical act if it is about gaining insight to help you as a clinician?
A debate has broken out in the UK about the rights and wrongs of googling patients.
Privacy campaigners, ethics experts and medical defence lawyers say doctors need clear guidelines about looking up information about their patients online.
