A friend recently came to me with a concern. Her former OB/Gyn had approached her with a request to be a friend on Facebook. It was a request that made my acquaintance uncomfortable because she felt that the relationship with her doctor had been a professional one, not a friendship.
Medical Providers and Social Networking Sites
In many ways, today's social networking systems are wonderful tools, bringing people together ' and no longer just the domain of teenagers. But these networking systems raise a set of issues that require us to think about confidentiality and professionalism in a new way.
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