RT Book, Section A1 Cucina, Russ A2 Papadakis, Maxine A. A2 McPhee, Stephen J. A2 Rabow, Michael W. SR Print(0) ID 1175378813 T1 Social Media & Websites in Clinical Practice T2 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021 YR 2021 FD 2021 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781260469868 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175378813 RD 2023/02/08 AB Many clinicians, either individually or through their practice group, maintain a website or social media presence as a service to their patients. For the individual practitioner or small group, very affordable web authoring and hosting services are available commercially. Large groups and institutions typically maintain their own websites and assist individual providers in representing themselves in a standardized way. Offering clinical information to patients or communicating patient-related health information over the Internet requires consideration of ethical and legal issues. Providing medical content can be construed as formal medical advice. As always, general patient education material and online recommendations should be followed by instructions directing patients to first discuss any suggested lifestyle or medication changes with a clinician before adoption.