Researchers studied the Twitter accounts of 237 physicians and medical students, examining 13,780 total tweets.
Results showed 15 users to have posted 26 tweets that contained specific and potentially identifying patient information.
The findings correlate with a 2011 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found 3 percent of physicians’ tweets to be unprofessional.
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