COVID-19 Conspiracies and Beyond: How Physicians Can Deal With Patients' Misinformation.
Abbasi J.JAMA. 2020 Dec 30. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.22018. Online ahead of print.PMID: 33377900 Link to article. Link to the Audio version. CME available.
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COVID-19 Conspiracies and Beyond: How Physicians Can Deal With Patients’ MisinformationEarly in 2020, communication science expert Brian Southwell, PhD, launched a training workshop at the Duke University School of Medicine to address a major clinical problem: What physicians should do when patients are misinformed about their health. It’s one of only a few such programs in the nation. This year, Southwell, a scholar with the medical school’s Social Science Research Institute, and his collaborator Jamie Wood, PhD, plan to make it available as a live virtual offering for clinician practices and health care systems.
“There’s a lot that we can learn from the past in terms of how people have engaged with misinformation historically,” Southwell said in a recent interview with JAMA. “That’s going to be helpful, but we also need to think about some of the challenges of the moment.” Misinformation is a longstanding issue, he acknowledged, but one that social media has facilitated and exacerbated—sometimes with dangerous consequences. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought it all to a head.
In the edited conversation that follows, Southwell, who is also a senior director at the independent, nonprofit research institute RTI International, discussed the viral spread of false health information and malicious disinformation campaigns, why we’re vulnerable to falling for them, and how time-pressed physicians can deal with all the noise.
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