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Doctors increasingly have to dissuade patients from medical misinformation found online
Doctors are facing more and more medical misinformation in their practices. They increasingly have to dissuade patients from false claims they heard on social media like that whooping cough is beneficial for a child’s development, deodorant can make you sick, and sunscreen is carcinogenic, NOS reports after surveying 670 doctors with the doctors’ federation KNMG.
They increasingly have to dissuade patients from false claims they heard on social media like that whooping cough is beneficial for a child’s development, deodorant can make you sick, and sunscreen is carcinogenic, NOS reports after surveying 670 doctors with the doctors’ federation KNMG. For example, a group of doctors launched an online campaign against vaping, and the Dokters Vandaag account on TikTok answers frequently asked questions. Outgoing State Secretary Maarten van Ooijen (Public Health) also proposed using doctors and other experts as influencers to combat misinformation about vaccines.
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