Doctors are starting to use social media to connect with patients. Facebook, Twitter, text messaging and other forms of social media are being used by practitioners to get a better connection from their practices to the masses. Doctors can put up video and information about their practices, to allow people to get a better idea of what they have to offer. Social media is slowly turning into the new "yellow pages" for people when it comes to searching for doctors. There is a new network, Community Health Network, that allows patients to chat with nurses and professionals to ask medical questions.
This brings a new concept to the medical world. It makes one wonder how far this social media thing is going to go. Will we be making our doctors appointments online in the future? Are we going to become less connected to our doctors and more connected to diagnosis over the internet? The gap between patient and doctor has been growing for years and it makes me wonder if the gap is going to be widened due to our ever growing addiction to the internet and technology.
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