American Medical Association

 The American Medical Association announced that it has adopted and issued a new policy offering guidance to physicians on the use of social media. The new policy focuses on helping physicians to "maintain a positive online presence and preserve the integrity of the patient-physician relationship."
The press release indicates that the policy encourages physicians to:

    - Use privacy settings to safeguard personal information and content to the fullest extent possible on social networking sites. 
    - Routinely monitor their own Internet presence to ensure that the personal and professional information on their own sites and content posted about them by others, is accurate and appropriate.
    - Maintain appropriate boundaries of the patient-physician relationship when interacting with patients online and ensure patient privacy and confidentiality is maintained.
    - Consider separating personal and professional content online.
    - Recognize that actions online and content posted can negatively affect their reputations among patients and colleagues, and may even have consequences for their medical careers.

Medicine and law ...and the Internet.
The future is a mystery. I'm starting to worry about what this is leading but care primarily!