Slate reports on increasingly common violations of patients’ privacy when medical practitioners take photos of patients on their personal devices and share them on social media. Approximately 30 percent of state medical boards have reported receiving complaints of “online violations of patient confidentiality,” according to a recent survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The violations have the potential to “undermine a proper physician-patient relationship and the public trust,” says the Federation of State Medical Boards.
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