This doctor is recruiting an army of medical experts to drown out fake health news on Instagram and Twitter

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Austin Chiang's mission is to recruit doctors to social media, so they can drown out health misinformation and bad medical advice.

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According to Chiang, doctors have historically been reluctant to build a following on social media for a variety of reasons. They view it as a waste of time, they don't know how, or they fear they might say the wrong thing and get in trouble with an employer. Others prefer to spend their time communicating with their peers via academic journals.

So he's working to recruit an army of physicians, nurses, patient advocates, and other health professionals to get online. He's primarily starting on his home turf at Jefferson Health, and with other doctors in his specialty. He was appointed to hisin the summer of 2018, which he got after a series of conversations with the health system's CEO Stephen Klasko.

Klasko, Chiang's CEO, sees a direct business benefit to having Jefferson's approximately 3,000 doctors participating on social media.

 

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good luck with that

This is y u talk to your own doctor.

Like Joe Biden is going to cure cancer

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Let's start with any infomercial that is trying to sell a product where the sponsor of their stated 'science' makes the profit. Talk about fake news! If you aren't willing to to employ a truly unbiased third party to analyze and report honest findings, that's the first red flag

Apparently Drug companies pay people to put fake nonsense on Wikipedia. Crazy but true.

They should go on Wikipedia. There was a story not to long ago about 9 out of 10 things about the medical profession is written wrong on purpose.

Hmmmm..what exactly is he promoting? Everything else but mine is fakenews is big pharma tactic for decades !!

The linked page contains a link to a video health “advertorial” shilling proprietary probiotics. Good luck!

The internet has done more for my healthcare than any doctor. My last doctor visit: I get about two minutes to explain my situation. Then he’ll spend three minutes telling me I’m wrong. That’ll conclude my outrageously overpriced five minute doctor visit.

Doctors are the most wrong people on the planet. Even when proven wrong they refuse to change their diagnosis.

I wish him luck. Looking up health info tends to turn people into hypochondriacs

News is not fake, it serves a purpose as anyone but a fake doctor would know

Can we start with banning news on health study findings when no follow up research has been performed?

Who says ur right?

Shouldn’t he be providing patient care because we have wait times and doctor shortages. Pick a career bud.

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