NY Times article entitled "Webcast Your Brain Surgery? Hospitals See Marketing Tool." The article describes the new use of social networking sites (YouTube, Twitter, etc) to market hospitals and procedures to potential patients. How might this impact privacy rules that are meant to protect patients? What are the ethical implications of this new use of social technology? Would you allow a medical procedure to be documented and shared on the internet?
Monday, May 25, 2009
Webcast Your Brain Surgery?
NY Times article entitled "Webcast Your Brain Surgery? Hospitals See Marketing Tool." The article describes the new use of social networking sites (YouTube, Twitter, etc) to market hospitals and procedures to potential patients. How might this impact privacy rules that are meant to protect patients? What are the ethical implications of this new use of social technology? Would you allow a medical procedure to be documented and shared on the internet?
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