Online professionalism investigations by state medical boards: First, do no harm

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 124-130

  Ryan Greysen, S ^a   Johnson, David ^b   Kind, Terry ^c   Chretien, Katherine C ^d   Gross, Cary P ^e   Young, Aaron ^b   Chaudhry, Humayun J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Federation of State Medical Boards   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d not available   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LICENSING; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PROFESSIONALISM; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES; VIGNETTE; CONSENSUS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LICENCE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ONLINE DATING; ONLINE SYSTEM;

EID: 84872568916     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-2-201301150-00008     Document Type: Article

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