Young doctors being attacked on social media by patients, top medic warns Doctors should limit their use of social media to avoid attacks by angry patients and shadowy lobby groups, one of the profession’s leaders has warned.
Dr Clare Gerada, former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said younger doctors in particular are increasingly subject to online “vitriol” and “hate”.
Now medical director of the NHS Practitioner Health Programme (PHP), a service to support under-pressure staff, she told The Telegraph that millennial doctors should take themselves off social media for periods in order to protect their mental health. The Daily Telegraph
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