Is Googling information about your patients ethical?
Privacy campaigners, lawyers and ethics professors are seeking guidelines for doctors.
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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?