Doctors Who Google Their Patients

Tuesday, 07 January 2014 | by Pat's Picks

There’s an essay in the New York Times from a doctor who admits to Googling his patients. Dr. Haider Warraich says learning more about his patients can help build empathy. It can also expose fraud, like the patient who wanted a double mastectomy but was discovered to have been collecting donations to help treat cancers she’d never had. But Dr. Warraich admits it’s a tricky ethical balance.

SOURCE: New York Times