Threat to doctors giving medical advice on PPRUNE
The General Medical Council of the UK has just released advice for UK registered doctors about social media sites. This advice is similar to an AD in aviation terms.
The rules now are that doctors cannot use a site such as pprune without providing their identity if they are known to be a doctor, and secondly that we cannot discuss individual patients or their care with those patients or anyone else
Many of you know my identity, so putting my name and contact details down would not be a big issue although I suspect my sleep might suffer. However there is little point posting if I cannot give my advice about a specific person's questions.
Sadly this effects all doctors, and could have a significant effect on this board. I would be interested in any comments (you may all be pleased to see the back of me!!!!!) as I would like to take this up with the GMC
Last edited by homonculus; 10th Apr 2013 at 18:51.