Featured blog post: Internet blurs the boundaries between physicians and patients

As the popularity of social networking sites skyrockets and more patients use the Internet to research everything from their symptoms to a local hospital’s quality scores, physicians are faced with some serious ethical dilemmas, according to an article in The Boston Globe. Although patients may not initially hesitate to “friend” their doctors on Facebook or MySpace, they may end up feeling uncomfortable with their doctors knowing certain details of their lives.

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