From patients to followers. In the center of the former village, some doctors are now blowing up the counters of social networks. Accounts for doctors and medical students are flourishing, particularly on TikTok, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). They convey scientific information about pathologies, cases encountered in their practice, and dietary and sports recommendations in the form of videos, topics or podcasts. Their publications do not always generate kind comments. How has this social media practice changed prevention in medicine, and what are its limits?
More posts post-Covid
“In 2020, during the Covid era, I was in my 4th year of medicine and influencers were posting: misinformation on social media as I worked as a patient to acquire proven medical knowledge, recalls Guillaume Chorao, now an 8th year emergency medicine student. I didn’t have time then…
Source: Le Figaro
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