While it’s true, of course, that revealing a patient’s personal information is a violation of privacy laws, that does not mean that a physician cannot safely provide generalized information via online sources. One recent article pointed out that many doctors go online these days. Some have interactions with their patients that way. One doctor corresponds with patients and others via Facebook. When asked about the chances of a fetus becoming infected by swimming in public pools, the doctor recognized that the question was general enough, and asked often enough, to justify a GENERALIZED answer. Without getting into that particular patient’s situation, he answered about the risk in a generalized sense.
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