Dr. Val Jones used slides and limericks to warn that looking for health information online can be both good and bad.
Addressing the e-Patients Connections 2009 conference in Philadelphia in October, she compared two patients whose online information experiences led to very different results — one happy, one tragic.
Val Jones MD, writes a popular blog, Getting Better with Dr. Val, and is the CEO of Better Health LLC, a network of medical bloggers.
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December 15, 2009 at 10:57 am, Dr. Val said:
Thanks for the link.