http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/ Switched Comments for Med Students Tweeting and Blogging Patient Details http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/Sep 25th 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/
Certainly it might be possible for someone with an extra interest to maybe track down their schedule, correlate times, and determine which patient they are talking about, and this is something that should be watched out for, but its also extremely unlikely.

Doctors are people, albiet for the most part very well trained and discreet people, and sharing something interesting from their day is going to happen. Who cares. Maybe you should take better care of yourself instead of complaining about people being people.]]>Sep 25th 2009 5:34PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/Sep 26th 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/Sep 25th 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/Sep 25th 2009 7:24PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/
A doctor tweeting "Had a long day, a couple colonoscopies and an ugly tumor removal that exhausted me" is TOTALLY acceptable. Granted we might not want to hear about that stuff but no patient information is revealed and the focus is really on the doctor is worn out.

Linda states my point again in a very clear way.

And for the most part, doctors are good people who are very overworked.]]>Sep 26th 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/Sep 25th 2009 8:38PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/Sep 25th 2009 10:42PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/Sep 26th 2009 1:12AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/
"If it stopped them from ever being a Doctor good. There's enough Doctors in it just for themselves. mho. I've been taken care of in teaching hospitals and they're a nightmare full of loose cannons acting like kids but being Doctors with Teachers who back them up."

Wow!, that's a lot of vehemence. Apparently you had a bad experience, but I've found most (not all, but a definite majority of) doctors work incredibly hard, take enormous abuse from (understandably) stressed patients and families. The legal, financial and administrative pressures on physicians is amazing, and students are under similar pressures. As they say "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes" ]]>Sep 26th 2009 10:24PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/25/med-students-posting-confidential-patient-information-to-the-web/
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