Wardrope, A. and Reuber, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-4104-6705 (2019) Medicine and the media: the ethics of virtual medical encounters. Clinical Medicine, 19 (1). pp. 11-15. ISSN 1470-2118
Abstract
The expansion of new forms of public media, including social media, exposes clinicians to more illness experiences/narratives than ever before and increases the range of ways to interact with the people depicted. Existing professional regulations and ethics codes offer very limited guidance for such situations. We discuss the ethics of responding to such scenarios through presenting three cases of clinicians encountering television or social media stories involving potential unmet healthcare needs. We offer a structured framework for health workers to think through their responses to such situations, based around four key questions for the clinician to deliberate upon: who is vulnerable to harm; what can be done; who is best placed to do it; and what could go wrong? We illustrate the application of this framework to our three cases.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Royal College of Physicians. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Clinical Medicine. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | CRPS; Informal medicine; clinical ethics; doctor–patient relationship; epilepsy; medical professionalism; social contract; social media |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Sheffield Teaching Hospitals |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2019 12:55 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jan 2020 01:39 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.19-1-11 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Royal College of Physicians |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.7861/clinmedicine.19-1-11 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141567 |